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TELECOM Digest     Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:30:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 271

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Nokia PR (Monty Solomon)
    Sony Ericsson PR (Monty Solomon)
    Leveraging Mobile Content: Creating Value in Wireless World (M Solomon)
    Power outage Knocks CheckFree Offline (Monty Solomon)
    Keeping Your Data Secret is Up to You (Monty Solomon)
    Re: Cell Phone Rental in Europe (Spyros Bartsocas)
    Re: Schools Prohibit Personal E-mail Sites (Justin Time)
    Re: AOL Users Most Likely to Make Zombie of Your Computer (Sean Weintz)
    Re: Companies Subvert Search Results to Squelch Criticism (jtaylor)
    Re: Email to Former AT&T Phones Now Cingular (Dean M.)
    Bell Divesture (was Re: Schools Prohibit Personal E-mail) (Lisa Hancock)

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:04:24 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Nokia PR


      Avaya and Nokia Collaborate to Deliver Next Phase of Fixed to
      Mobile Convergence Applications for Enterprises
      - Jun 13, 2005 03:00 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49801340


      'Human Technology' at the Heart of Nokia's Vision of Mobility
      - Jun 13, 2005 03:11 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49801517


      Simple Pleasures: Nokia Introduces Seven New Mobile Phones
      - Jun 13, 2005 03:23 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49801552


      Nokia Launches New Network Services and Solutions Initiatives
      - Jun 13, 2005 03:29 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49801565


      Nokia to Expand Elisa's Networks, Bring High Data Speeds to 3G
      - Jun 13, 2005 03:36 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49801611


      Avaya and Nokia Collaborate to Deliver Next Phase of Fixed to
      Mobile Convergence Applications for Enterprises
      - Jun 13, 2005 03:43 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49801638


      Nokia Collaborates With Enterprise Voice Leaders to Offer
      Extended Mobility to Businesses
      - Jun 13, 2005 03:44 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49801651


      Nokia and OnRelay Collaborate to Create Mobile Deskphone
      - Jun 13, 2005 03:53 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49801681


      New Consumer Research by Nokia Lifts Lid on What Really Drives
      New Growth Markets
      - Jun 13, 2005 04:27 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49801919


      Nokia and OnRelay Collaborate to Create the Mobile Deskphone
      Bringing Advanced Voice Applications to the Enterprise
      - Jun 13, 2005 09:01 AM (BusinessWire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49807782


      Nokia Delivers Three Diverse Handset Designs to the CDMA Market
      - Jun 13, 2005 10:00 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49809446

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:05:16 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Sony Ericsson PR


      Sony Ericsson Redefines Music on the Move With W600 Walkman(R)
      Phone for North American Consumers
      - Jun 13, 2005 09:30 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49808654

      Appello's WISEPILOT Turns the Sony Ericsson P910a Into a Powerful
      Personal Navigation Device
      - Jun 13, 2005 09:30 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49808667

      Sony Ericsson Introduces Fashionable Clamshell Phone for North
      America; Sony Ericsson Z520a Incorporates Bluetooth(TM), Camera
      and Cool Curves
      - Jun 13, 2005 09:30 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49808691

      Sony Ericsson Introduces New Generation of Bluetooth(TM)-Enabled
      Accessories for North America
      - Jun 13, 2005 09:30 AM (PR Newswire)
      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=49808702

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:10:28 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Leveraging Mobile Content: Creating Value in a Wireless World


http://www.researchchannel.org/program/displayevent.asp?rid=2506

Join a panel of experts as they discuss the prospects, complexities,
and expertise needed to leverage mobile content and create value in a
wireless world. Increasing data transfer rates and the proliferation
of mobile phones with sophisticated media capabilities, has made
mobile content is a hot commodity. The market for mobile content is
expected to reach $78 billion by 2007. In order to emerge as a player
in this burgeoning market, organizations need to have access to
content and its associated rights, possess technology that can
aggregate content and easily merchandise it, and access to wireless
customers and billing capabilities.

http://www.researchchannel.org/program/displayevent.asp?rid=2506

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:45:02 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Power outage knocks CheckFree offline


By Alorie Gilbert

A power outage has disabled CheckFree's online bill payment service,
causing its Web site and service to be unavailable, the company said
Wednesday.

The problem began Wednesday morning when the power in CheckFree's data
center in Norcross, Ga., went out, knocking its computers offline.

http://news.com.com/2100-1038-5748539.html

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:14:18 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Keeping Your Data Secret is Up to You


THE COLOR OF MONEY
Keeping your data secret is up to you

By Michelle Singletary  

If you had to guess, how many companies would you say have enough of
your personal data stored in various databases to make even a rookie
crook ready for prime-time conning?

You probably don't know the answer, and that is the problem.

In the last six months, the personal data of millions of consumers
have been lost, stolen, or sold to thieves. The most recent case
involved a financial unit of Citigroup Inc. CitiFinancial, which
provides a wide variety of consumer loan products, said that personal
information (Social Security numbers, loan account data, and
addresses) of 3.9 million customers was lost by UPS in transit to a
credit bureau. So far, CitiFinancial said it has no reason to believe
the information has been used inappropriately.

So far.

Every time we hear of one of these cases, the companies involved tell
their customers not to worry. Trust us, they say. They pledge to
enhance their security procedures.

http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/articles/2005/06/12/keeping_your_data_secret_is_up_to_you/


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I never hear the companies involved nor
the credit bureaus nor the carrier service say they have followed 
through with an audit on the paperwork; showing _who_ signed for the
files when taken from the company, nor _which of their personnel_
accepted it, nor _when, exactly_ it somehow got lost. And this leads
me to believe that maybe occassionally the tapes never got picked up
by the carrier but instead got picked up by some imposter/phisher
who merely claimed to be the carrier. PAT]

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From: Spyros Bartsocas <spyros@telecom-digest.zzn.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:34:08 +0300
Subject: Re: Cell Phone Rental in Europe


You say $60 or $70 per week is certainly no bargain when you can get a
second-hand phone to *keep* for that kind of money and just buy a
local prepaid account readily available in lots of local places.

Why buy second hand? I just made a quick check at one of the four
Greek mobile operators and you can get a phone to keep plus some
initial call time as follows:

(all prices in Euros):
a)19,90 euros with 8 euros call time
b)14,99 euros with 6 euros call time

You have a choice of the following phones:
Alcatel O.T.153
Ericsson T290
LG L341i
Motorola C155
NEC 331i
Nokia 2650
Siemens A65

Time renewal comes in 7 and 15 euros.

Phones provided with prepaid accounts are usually blocked to the
carrier for six months. On the other hand with similar prices you can
get a second phone in Turkey and pay less than the rental or second
hand prices mentioned by other readers.

Spyros

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From: Justin Time <a_user2000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Schools Prohibit Personal E-mail Sites
Date: 16 Jun 2005 06:19:13 -0700


> The Internet wouldn't be run by the "telephone company."  It would be
> a very limited linkup between universities and defense contractors who
> could afford to pay for the $1000+ per month 256k high-speed lines
> needed.  The rest of us would still be using the Source, Compuserve,
> and BIX over dialup, using special utilities to minimize toll call time.

> Michael D. Sullivan

But it wasn't until sometime around 1993 or '94 that the last Internet
BACKBONE segment was upgraded from 9600 baud to a T-1.  I remember the
announcement, and I am certain the last segment upgraded was one of
the major labs in the far southwest (Arizona, NM, or even perhaps the
Livermore lab in Ca.)  The government agency I was working at at that
particular time got its feed from Carnegie-Mellon and was shipped down
to our office in Washington on a 56K line.  Of course back in those
days IP addresses were plentiful and we had an entire Class B to
subnet in our offices.

Rodgers Platt

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From: T. Sean Weintz <strap@hanh-ct.org>
Subject: Re: AOL Users Most Likely to Make Zombie of Your Computer
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:01:29 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


Pat wrote:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Regarding Zombies, it takes one to make
> another, doesn't it. Lisa apologizes for being unclear on that 
> headline.  PAT]

No, generally it does NOT take a zombie to make another zombie in the
PC world.  Most zombie type infections come from trojan downloads
rather than propagating directly from machines that are already
zombies, since most zombie infections do not act as worms.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Ooops, I was thinking of humanoid type
Zombies. In a movie on television the other night, "Village of the Undead", 
after some damn fool went and dug up a grave at the local cemetery,
the Zombie thus resurrected went around the town creating more of his
kind. He would touch and kill one person; that person became a Zombie.
Then the two Zombies created more of their kind the same way, finding
new people, killing them, and bringing them back to life as new
Zombies. After about an hour of this (one Zombie creates another
Zombie, etc) eventually the few remaining actual living people in this
village thought it prudent to call in the police, or some kind of
militia to do in the bunch of them, which is how the movie ended. It
was sort of like two old movies I saw, 'The Zombies of Mora Tau' and
'Abbott and Costello Meet the Zombie'. With humanoid zombies, first
someone has to dig one up, then that one goes around reproducing his
own kind from other people.  I guess computers don't have to do it
that way. PAT]

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From: jtaylor <jtaylor@deletethis.hfx.andara.com>
Subject: Re: Companies Subvert Search Results to Squelch Criticism
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:56:50 -0300
Organization: MCI Canada News Reader Service


> If they don't like what Quixtar is doing, they should change their
> software.

> ob googlewhack: billabong microstepping

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But Google's claim would be they
> were fraudulently induced to create false results. It would be
> something akin to postal fraud (but not with the same legal
> ramifications): To commit 'postal fraud' one does not need to
> physically put a fraudulent item in the mail; inducing someone
> else to do so is likewise fraud _on your part_. So you induced
> Google, in this instance, to draw up and present false or
> fraudulent search results.

But how are these results "fraudulent" or "false"?

It is up to Google to define its results, and the software they use to
achieve them.  If Google

a) had a contract with another party to develop search engine software;
b) that contract said that the results should not be influenced by Quixtar's
(or any similar) actions; and
c) the results were in fact so influenced

then Google might have a cause of action against that company - but if
they themselves develop the software, they cannot claim fraud if the
software does exactly what they design it to do.  There is no party
(except themselves) that has injured them.

Businesses make badly designed products all the time; and when the
defects come to light it is there job to make them better, not to
complain that the completely legal actions of others are to blame.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Yes, the software does what it was
designed to do, just like credit card processing does what it is
supposed to do. But if you were (in this instance at least) a bit
smarter than Google, or the credit card people and caused something
to happen by employing fraud, then the law, which is theoretically
always intended to protect the weak against the strong will side 
with Google (or the credit card people). PAT]

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Subject: Re: Email to Former AT&T Phones Now Cingular
From: Dean M. <cjmebox-telecomdigest@yahoo.com>
Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:07:40 GMT


I'm quite certain it is 10digitphonenumber@mmode.com

Dean

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:30:05 -0700, <NOTvalid@XmasNYC.Info> wrote:

> AT&T: 10-digit-number@mobile.att.net formerly worked but no longer
> Cingular: 10-digit-number@mobile.mycingular.net may work for original
> Cingular customers.

> What is the current methods to send text msgs to former AT&T now
> Cingluar cell phone numbers?

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think @mobile.mycingular.com (or .net)
> works for the AT&T displaced customers as well.   PAT

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Bell Divesture (was Re: Schools Prohibit Personal E-mail Sites)
Date: 16 Jun 2005 07:14:02 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Robert Bonomi wrote:

> If the "Bell System/AT&T/Western Electric" had remained a monolithic
> entity, The rate of change in the "Internet" would likely have been
> much slower.  There probably would not have been the telecom boom/bust
> of circa 5 years ago,

What is your basis to claim "the rate of change in the Internet
would likely have been much slower"?

It seems that many critics of the former Bell System "freeze it" at
the time of divesture.  That is, they presume the Bell System's
physical plant and operating policies would never change and remain in
1983 technology.  That premise is absurb.  Throughout its history the
Bell System was improving its plant.  The system of 1983 was radically
different than the system of 1973, and clearly the system of 1993 and
2003 would be radically different than 1983.

I know that data communications improved greatly just during the late
1970s, for example.  Digital lines replaced analog lines for faster
speed and higher reliability.  Private line costs were coming down.

It is also clear operating policies and service plans would have
changed, too.  (They were always envolving in the past).  How or what
is tougher to say -- it depends on the external environment.

Don't forget the Bell System was heavilly controlled by (1) regulation
and (2) the consent decree.  We know that deregulation became popular
later on.  It's possible the Bell System may have been allow to adjust
its rates so the the profitable corridors (the "cream") may have
gotten discounts so Bell could compete fairly against newcomers.  It's
possible the Bell System may have escaped the consent decree--just as
IBM was able to do -- and go into new markets previously closed to it.

Who knows, perhaps LANS and WANS would've been bult FASTER had
the Bell System been allowed to be involved and use it strengths.

Fred Atkinson wrote:

> Regarding divestiture, I'd have to disagree with your position.  Have
> you ever studied economics and the principles thereof?

Yes, I have studied economics.  I know that "competition" in as much
by itself is no guarantee of lower prices.  There are a great many
more significant variables that must be considered.  In the case of
the Bell System, it must be remembered that Bell's prices were NOT set
by being a monopoly, but rather set by the govt in accordance with
social policy.

It was easy for MCI to undercut Bell's pricing because MCI focused
solely on the most lucrative markets and unlike Bell, did not have to
spread its costs and revenues a wide base.  MCI didn't have to build
microwave towers high in the Rockies yet charge no more.  Nor did MCI
have to carry deadbeat or higher cost customers or provide support
service.

That's not free competition.

> The telephone system never improved all that much over the years (at
> least, to the perception of the end user) until the Bell companies had
> to compete.

That is utter nonsense.

If your statement was true, then the Bell System would still be at a
1910 technical level.  Obviously it went beyond that.

The reality is that the Bell System was continually improving its
switchgear, transmission media, customer service, and subscriber
equipment right up until divesture.  Long distance rates were falling.

Before divesture my employer was getting faster, more reliable, and
cheaper private line data service and Centrex service.

> Thus, competition played a big role in bringing prices down.  And
> the end user got a lot more say so about his/her telephone
> service(s) and got what they wanted at prices they could afford.

The divesture result in costs being _shifted_, not coming down.  For
many subscribers, cost went UP.

Users could define their service requirements before divesture.

One cost shifting was moving former telco employees into the employ of
corporations they once served.  That didn't really save any money,
indeed, for many employers, it increased costs.  That is, instead of
contracting out specialized work to specialists, one now had to hire
those specialists in house.

> I remember when an answering machine could only be provided and
> installed by the phone company.  The cost was enormous and there
> were no other alternatives.  Then came Carterphone, thank goodness.
> And then came competition between carriers ... and the walls came a
> tumbling down (with apologies to 'Joshua').

There were answering machines available in the early 1960s.  Back then
the technology was limited to what a machine could cost effectively do
(not a lot of microprocessors in the early 1960s).  Many business
people preferred human answering services to provide superior customer
service.

BTW, Carterphone was not Divesture.  Separate issue.

> Because everyone was trying to provide something that the other
> carriers didn't provide (to target their niche in the marketplace),
> the technology began to develop and new things were offered.  I often
> doubt that we'd have ever seen the Internet if the industry hadn't
> become competitive (or at least not for many more years to come).

Your statement implies there was no technology development prior to
divesture.  I suggest you read some Bell Laboratories Record magazines
to see all the things that were going on.  A great many of the
technologies of the 1990s were originally developed at Bell Labs.

As to the Internet, as mentioned the cost of private lines was
declining while speed was going up before divesture.  This would
continue.

Indeed, I wonder if the old Bell System had stayed around and had a
hand in regulating the Internet, some of the problems we have today
would not exist.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Here is a question for the collected
> readership: _If_ Bell had not gotten divested, and was still in
> charge of most everything relating to telecommunications, what would
> the internet be like today?

Probably better.  Pat, look at the many problems you articulated about
Internet control and supervision.  I dare say the Bell System would
have handled it better.

> Would it all be run by 'the telephone company'? Would we be getting
> all our attachments and peripherals from the telephone company? I
> suggest that might be the case. What do the rest of you think?

Carterphone already removed a big barrier and private lines were
already free to hook up their own stuff.  So, many attachments would
be available from private sources.  However, I suspect a healthy Bell
System would've kept Western Electric, modified it to meet modern
business needs, and been a competitive player.

Much would've depended on the regulators.

IBM was able to radically change as a company and save itself because
it was freed from its 1956 consent decree and got into some lines of
business previously forbidden to it and not forced to share free very
valuable research patents.

Presumably there'd be deregulation of the Bell System.  Private
services would be allowed as well as long distance interconnection.
But at the same time, Bell would be allowed to modify its rates to
meet specific market conditions and compete better, and get revenues
from new services previously forbidden, just like IBM.

Let's remember that MCI got a foothold in many doors not by offering
superior service and lower rates, but by suing regulators or other
agencies to force itself in the door.  That's not "free market"
activity either.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Recall please that MCI got its start
by filing a fraudulent petition with the Illinois Commerce Commission.
The radio repair shop in Joliet, Illinois (MCI's humble beginnings)
_claimed_ all they wanted to do was run a microwave link for a
small, selected handful of their private customers between Joliet,
Chicago and St. Louis. Illinois Bell protested, but to no avail. ICC
allowed Microwave Communications (the small private dealer of radio
equipment and repair of same) to install a link between Chicago and
St. Louis. Soon thereafter, Microwave Communications somehow 'snuck
in' an interconnection to the 'outside' world via a telephone central
office in Chicago and one in St. Louis. 

Regards how they initially built up their customer base, MCI took
advantage of two things: (1) the public's general dislike for Bell
System (remember, VietNam, anti-everything big business in the 1960's)
and (2) whether they were 'anti-everything' or not, the general
ignorance of the public regards the working of things telephonic. Knowing
nothing about the concepts of Separations and Settlements, nor the
costs of running big telcos versus rural telcos, nor the profits to
be had in the east coast corridor versus the heavy expenses of putting
repair people to work atop telephone poles in the Rocky Mountains in 
the dead of winter, when MCI proffered 'much cheaper rates for calls
by using us instead of them', between that and (1, above) people 
jumped at the chance to 'get one over on Ma Bell' ...  As Charlie
Brown, AT&T's Chairman during Divestiture once phrased it, "When was
the last time MCI had two of their long-time, dedicated workers
fall to their deaths from a high peak in the Rockies in the dead of
winter when they had gone out to repair lines for a small community
of a few hundred people who otherwise would have had to go without 
phone service until spring when the lines could be safely restored?
If AT&T did not have to deal with hideous conditions like that in
the interest of providing round the clock phone service to small,
rural areas, then I could afford to give cut rate long distance 
service also." And he continued, "the nerve of those people to tell
customers to use _our_ directory service (which we provide for 'free'
as part of our over all expense in running the telephone company) and
then to place the _revenue_ portion of the call using their facilities
'because they are cheaper, and why would you want to spend money on
Bell when you could get it for less' ..."  PAT] 

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