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TELECOM Digest     Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:03:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 345

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Telecom Update #490, July 29, 2005 (Angus TeleManagement Group)
    Social Security Number Access Being Eyed (Monty Solomon)
    Cisco Reaches Deal With Security guru (USTelecom dailyLead)
    SIM Card Clone/Backup (sim)
    Re: Unauthorized Remote Access to Answering Machine (Choreboy)
    Re: Bell Canada Cell Scam? (Joseph)
    Re: CT301 Service Manual (mike2711@yahoo.com)
    Re: Credit Reports, was: AT&T Customers Taken Over By Alltel (Cryderman)
    Re: Last Laugh! Spammer, age 35, Meets "Moscow Rules" (davidesan)

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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:03:29 -0700
Subject: Telecom Update #490, July 29, 2005
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IN THIS ISSUE: 

Telcos Ask Cabinet to Deregulate VoIP
Telus Workers on the Picket Line 
Entourage Strike Ends 
Local Phone Competition Spreads 
Telecom Policy Review to Include Public Hearings 
Bell Mobility Relaunches Solo 
Telus Strike Boosts Wireless Sales 
Mitec, SR Telecom CEOs Resign 
Thieves Hit Phone Equipment Vendors 
Wireless Fuels Rogers Growth 
Aliant Sales Edge Up 
Allstream Swells MTS Revenue 
Aastra Revenue Doubles 
Hall of Fame to Debut at Telemanagement Live 

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TELCOS ASK CABINET TO DEREGULATE VOIP: On July 28, Aliant, Bell
Canada, SaskTel, Telebec, and Telus filed a joint petition to Cabinet
asking it to eliminate the "economic regulation" of VoIP services that
the CRTC ordered in Telecom Decision 2005-28 (see Telecom Update
#481). The telcos want to be able to offer VoIP services without
filing tariffs and without restrictions on "winback" activities or
promotional offers.
 
www.bce.ca/en/news/eventscalendar/webcasts/2005/20050728/index.php

** The Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association immediately urged
Cabinet to reject the telcos' appeal.

www.ccta.ca/english/view.asp?t=&x=150&id=1209

TELUS WORKERS ON THE PICKET LINE: The Telecommunications Workers Union
calls it a lockout. Telus calls it a strike.  What's certain is that
after five years without a contract, thousands of unionized Telus
employees are now walking picket lines. B.C. and Alberta courts have
barred the TWU from picketing in a manner that "blocks, obstructs, or
impedes access" to and from Telus premises.

** Telus blocked all of its Internet customers from accessing 
   Voices-for-change.com, a website that is "run by and for 
   Telecommunications Workers Union (TWU) members." The B.C. 
   Civil Liberties association condemned Telus for 
   "leveraging its power as a telecommunications service 
   provider to censor a specific group." Telus ended the 
   website block after an Alberta Court ordered the website 
   to remove photos of Telus employees who cross picket 
   lines.

ENTOURAGE STRIKE ENDS: The four-month strike by 1,400 employees of
Entourage Technology Solutions, now part of Bell Canada, has
ended. The union says the settlement is $3.5 million better for its
members than Bell's pre-strike offer.

** CRTC statistics show that service-related complaints 
   against Bell more than doubled during the strike.

LOCAL PHONE COMPETITION SPREADS: Local phone service from cablecos
Shaw, Rogers, and Cogeco is now available in more areas. Shaw has
begun selling Digital Phone in Winnipeg; Rogers has added six
communities in Ontario and three in B.C.

** Vonage Canada has begun offering local telephone numbers 
   from Brampton and Mississauga, Ontario.

TELECOM POLICY REVIEW TO INCLUDE PUBLIC HEARINGS: The
Telecommunications Policy Review Panel (see Telecom Update #482, 485)
has announced two public consultations. The first, on September 9 in
Whitehorse, will focus on broadband access issues. The second, on
October 24-26 in Ottawa, will consider broader telecom policy issues
including regulation, adoption of information and communications
technologies, and productivity.

www.telecomreview.ca/epic/internet/intprp-gecrt.nsf/en/rx00027e.html

BELL MOBILITY RELAUNCHES SOLO: Bell Mobility's Solo Mobile service,
featuring free text messaging, $1-a-day walkie- talkie service,
exclusive handsets, and a free ringtone each month, will be available
August 2. The revived Solo brand targets 13- to 24-year-olds.

TELUS STRIKE BOOSTS WIRELESS SALES: MetroBridge Networks, a B.C.-based
wireless broadband provider, says its volume of customer inquires has
increased 15-fold since Telus workers walked out. The company says it
is receiving orders from companies that are moving or setting up new
offices, and from others that want back-up facilities in case of
service interruption.

MITEC, SR TELECOM CEOs RESIGN: The chief executives of two Montreal-
based wireless equipment makers have resigned:

** Rajiv Pancholy has resigned as President and CEO of Mitec 
   Telecom. CFO Keith Findlay becomes interim CEO; Stefano 
   Bazzocchi is acting CFO. Mitec has announced losses of $25 
   million on sales of $58 million for the year ended April 
   30.

** Pierre St-Arnaud has resigned as President and CEO of SR 
   Telecom. William Aziz, the company's Chief Restructuring 
   Officer, has been named interim CEO.

THIEVES HIT PHONE EQUIPMENT VENDORS: Toronto fraud squad investigators
say thieves have been calling in orders for quantities of business
phones, picking up the equipment, and paying with worthless cheques or
money orders. Seven incidents have been reported; other victims are
asked to call the police.

WIRELESS FUELS ROGERS GROWTH: A 47% jump in wireless revenue enabled
Rogers Communications to increase second-quarter sales to $1.73
billion, 29% more than a year earlier. The wireless division, which
added 125,000 subscribers, made up 56% of Rogers sales. Results
include the former Microcell but not Call-Net.

** Rogers bundle discounts, formerly 15% across-the-board, 
   now range from 5% to 15%.

** Rogers Telecom (formerly Call-Net) reports Q2 2005 
   revenues of $217 million, up 8% over the same quarter in 
   2004, with growth in both consumer and business service 
   revenues and a 41% increase in EBITDA. 

** Rogers' July 1 acquisition of Call-Net (see Telecom Update 
   #488) triggered several change-of-control provisions, 
   including vesting of stock options ($4.1 million) and 
   senior executive payments ($3.4 million). The agreement 
   that allowed Call-Net to use Sprint's name and technology 
   will end September 29.

ALIANT SALES EDGE UP: Aliant Inc. had 2Q net income of $49.8 million,
24% higher than the second quarter a year earlier, during which Aliant
experienced a strike. Sales rose 1.2% to $517 million. Wireless sales
increased 14%; Internet sales, 6%.

** Aliant says that 693 employees have accepted buyout 
   packages.

ALLSTREAM SWELLS MTS REVENUE: Manitoba Telecom 2Q revenue of $502
million was 60% higher than a year ago, before its purchase of
Allstream. On a pro forma basis, revenue in Manitoba was up 4.3%,
while that of the national division (Allstream) was down 3.9%. Net
income: $111.5 million.

** John MacDonald, President of the MTS national division, 
   returns from a medical leave August 2. 

AASTRA REVENUE DOUBLES: Aastra Technologies, based in Concord,
Ontario, had 2Q revenue of $126 million, 94% higher than a year
earlier. Net income: $7 million. Earlier this year, Aastra bought the
PBX business of EADS, which includes the former Intecom; two weeks ago
it paid $51 million for the PBX business of Berlin-based DeTeWe.

HALL OF FAME TO DEBUT AT TELEMANAGEMENT LIVE: The inaugural ceremonies
for Canada's Telecommunications Hall of Fame will be held in Toronto
on October 17, in conjunction with the Telemanagement Live conference
and trade show. The first eight inductees to the Hall of Fame will be
announced at a gala co-hosted by the Coalition for Competitive
Telecommunications.

** Online registration for Telemanagement Live, Canada's 
   premier annual conference on business telecom and 
   networking, is now open at www.telemanagementlive.com. 
   Participants who register before August 31 save $300 off 
   the full conference fee.
 
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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:51:51 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Social Security Number Access Being Eyed


By BRIAN BERGSTEIN AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Recent disclosures of massive data leaks at
information brokers, banks and retailers have prompted Congress to
once again consider tightening access to Social Security numbers,
which have evolved into dangerous master keys for fraudsters.

But Social Security numbers already have come under a hodgepodge of
restrictions over the years, and many experts question whether the new
proposals would truly hinder identity theft.

In fact, reducing some companies' access to Social Security numbers
could even worsen the situation.

Several identity theft watchdogs say the bills would neglect the
deeper reason why financial fraud is relatively easy: Speed, not
identity assurance, is the main priority of U.S. financial
institutions that issue credit.

To be sure, the fact that many companies use Social Security numbers
essentially as a password _ not only are they the key to getting
credit, they can also unlock access to an account over the phone _
magnifies the problem. That's why Congress hopes to hide the numbers
better _ by reducing the ways they can be sold, for example, or by
prohibiting them from being printed on benefit checks.

Even so, keeping the numbers and other personal data out of the wrong
hands likely will remain tricky.

      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=50788088

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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:00:09 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Cisco Reaches Deal With Security Guru


USTelecom dailyLead
July 29, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23457&l=2017006

		TODAY'S HEADLINES
	
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Cisco reaches deal with security guru
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Huawei finding U.S. expansion no easy task
* Foreign mobile phone giants make gains in China
* Siemens, Citizens, Alcatel, NTT report earnings
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT 
* TELECOM '05 exhibit floor sales hit record high
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* Apple brings podcasts to the masses
VOIP DOWNLOAD
* Encryption pioneer focuses on VoIP
* Comcast to use Sprint network for VoIP service
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Sen. Stevens eyes Telecom Act update
* California city scraps municipal broadband trial
* Verizon, Virginia county reach preliminary TV franchise deal

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23457&l=2017006

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From: sim <sim@web.nameintel.com>
Subject: SIM Card Clone/Backup
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:57:58 +0800
Organization: Hong Kong Broadband Network


http://www.nowgsm.com/supersim.htm

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From: Choreboy <choreboyREMOVE@localnet.com>
Subject: Re: Unauthorized Remote Access to Answering Machine
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:43:23 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


Choreboy wrote:

> I've been doing chores for a vacationing relative.  Tuesday, I
> answered his phone at 9 AM and got a series of beeps, perhaps half a
> second long and three seconds apart.  I waited and hung up.  It
> happened again two minutes later.

> Two minutes later it rang a third time.  I didn't get to it in time.
> When I walked past the answering machine, the display said it was
> being remotely accessed.

> If my relative had called to check his answering machine, I didn't
> understand why he had kept beeping me instead of replying when I said
> hello.  None of the messages had been erased.  I'd never known him to
> leave messages on the machine after checking.

> Was it somebody fooling around?  I asked another relative to phone and
> try the machine manufacturer's default remote-access code, which was
> incorrect.  With the wrong code, the display said only for a second
> that it was being remotely accessed.  It had stayed on longer the
> first time, as if the first caller really had checked the messages.

> At 9 AM Wednesday morning it happened again.  I listened a minute or
> so, until the other end hung up.  I realized the beeps were a pure
> tone and not the sounds of a touchtone phone, so it wasn't my relative
> trying to access his messages.  When they called two minutes alter,
> the answering machine got it. There was no third call.

> Call Return gave me a number.  It's not listed, but travel sites on
> the web say it's the fax line of a fancy hotel hundreds of miles from
> here.  My relatives have never had occasion to stay in that city.

> I don't know anything about fax protocol.  When somebody answers, will
> a fax machine emit a beep every three seconds or so for a minute or
> so?  Will it keep calling if a human answers but stop calling if an
> answering machine answers?  Can an answering machine mistake a fax
> machine for a human with the access code?

> Another possibility is that the Caller ID was faked and somebody is
> using a machine to spy on my relative's telephone messages.  Is there
> such a device?

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It could be a spy machine, but I think
> it more likely that you/relatives are being terrorized by an incorrectly
> programmed fax machine at the First National Bank of Chicago. That
> very fax machine, or one of its ancestors has a long history (25 years
> or more) of auto-dialing the wrong numbers, and continuing to do so
> until Illinois Bell has to threaten FNB with disconnection of the
> phone line to get it to stop. 25 years ago, circa 1979-80 First
> National Bank of Chicago's fax machine was programmed to call around
> to various branches of the bank during early evening hours to 'poll'
> for documents or deliver documents issued by the bank. Trouble was,
> the humanoids in charge of the machine misprogrammed the dialing
> string. They got an extra '01' in the string somewhere, so the machine
> was calling _Germany_ during what would be the overnight hours in that
> country. Religiously, several times per night, five nights per week,
> that fax machine was calling a private family in Germany, and
> terrorizing them. Just silence, then 'beep beep, etc', more silence
> then more 'beep, beep'. After a week or two of this, the family, by
> now frightened out of their wits, or really, more annoyed, ask for
> intervention from Bundespost, and in due course Bundespost traced it
> back to the idiotic Americans, and in turn asked AT&T to review the
> problem. AT&T found it was coming from Illinois Bell territory, the
> Wabash central office to be exact, and told those people to get the
> problem cured. Like complaints made to the Illinois Commerce
> Commission where the complaint is raised and the prissy old lady
> secretary at the Commission makes a _single_ phone call of inquiry,
> then folds her hands and announces self-righteously "I have called the
> company and they _assure_ me it will be corrected" (and then it never
> is), IB Telco tracked it down to the fax machine at the First National
> Bank, made a phone call, said in essence to can the shit and get that
> fax machine under control. But it was not cured, and the problems went
> on for another month or so all night long. The German family inquired
> further, Bundepost inquired again, and AT&T, more than a little
> annoyed -- I guess Bundespost had really breathed on them a little
> this time -- passed along their grief once again to Illinois Bell.

> This time, a manager in Illinois Bell's security unit made a 'courtesy
> call' on the bank's Vice President-Telecom  and told him unless _he_
> would cure it, telco was going to cut off the fax machine line. The
> VP-Telecom for the bank went downstairs with the proverbial hatchet in
> hand, ready to do business on the spot, laid into his people and got
> the fax machine reprogrammed on the spot. But, as Paul Harvey would
> phrase it, 'the rest of the story is to follow'. Bank's telephone bill
> arrived the next month, with page after page after page after page of
> _LOTS_ of one-minute calls to the same number in Germany, one after
> another, every couple minutes all night long. Since most employees of
> First National Bank have the memory retention of a parrot or a tortoise,
> bank employees in charge of reconciling the phone bill assumed, this
> must be some screw up by the phone company, and by God, we are not
> going to pay for a phone company mistake. Telco explained to FNB
> (I assume with a straight face) what had happened. I do not know if
> telco eventually wrote it off (as they used to do _everything_ that
> a customer would not pay for) or not.
 
> I wonder if the people using the hotel public fax machine wherever in
> your account also blamed the added charges on their bill on a screw
> up by the hotel switchboard. Probably. Did you or will you tell your
> relatives about this incident when they get back from their vacation?
> PAT]

Thank you Pat!  You've given me insight.

It didn't occur to me that a guest might send faxes over the same phone
line by which the management receives faxes.  The number is advertised
as the fax line for Brookstown Inn in Winston-Salem.  The building was
erected in 1836 as a textile mill.  The inn is a sort of museum.

My relatives say they did stay there once.  They think the hotel must
have been trying to fax them travel ads but don't understand why they
dialed the voice number.

That didn't sound right.  Annoying people with faxes would discourage
repeat business.  Besides, under the law, an established business
relationship does not justify faxing an ad without specific permission. 
And if the hotel were faxing a list of former guests, the list the
second day would exclude those who had received their faxes the first
day.  So one would not expect the phone to ring at exactly 9 AM both days.

Suppose faxes submitted by hotel guests are cued until normal office
hours.  If the fax intended for my relatives was the first in line, that
could be why the phone rang at 9 AM both days.

I couldn't find anyone who knew how it sounds to be called by a fax
machine.  So I installed fax software on my computer, faxed my
relatives' voice line, and listened on an extension.  I recognized the
beeps.  Apparently their answering machine took the beeping for a person
having trouble punching a touchtone code.  The machine's voice
instructed the caller to punch the access code, and the answering
machine waited.  That explains why for several seconds the machine's
display said it was being remotely accessed.

I can even explain why the voice line was dialed.  Daplus.us is an
online phone book that seems to be updated several times a year.  For
years, it has listed my relatives' fax number as their voice number.
I suppose someone with a subscription to daplus could request fax
numbers, and daplus would probably give my relatives' voice number as
their fax number.

I think a hotel guest who wanted to fax my relatives got the wrong
number from daplus.  The first day, the guest got a report that the fax
hadn't gone through, so the guest submitted it again.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Then they probably did it a few more
times 'just to make sure of the number', etc. You did not say if the
problem was still going on or not.  PAT]

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From: Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Bell Canada Cell Scam?
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:52:56 -0700
Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com


On 28 Jul 2005 16:26:07 -0700, retrosorter <hrichler@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

> Shouldn't Bell, or any cellular company, be obliged to tell
> consumers that this could happen? I know it is detailed in the
> documentation but for me this is not adequate consumer protection.

What would you have a company do?  Put out a book in 20 point type
with every word in bold?  The documentation states what
responsibilities someone has for using the service.  If they do not
choose to look at documentation that's not the fault of the company.
That's the fault of the user who didn't bother to see what *their*
responsibility is.  Ignorance of terms of use is no excuse.

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From: mike2711@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: CT301 Service Manual
Date: 29 Jul 2005 15:16:43 -0700


I have one of these phones also ... Can these still be used? As a
novelty of course!

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Subject: Credit Reports, was Re: AT&T Customers Being Taken Over By Alltel
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:06:14 -0400
From: Charles Cryderman <Charles.Cryderman@globalcrossing.com>


The law providing free credit reports of all credit reporting
companies has been on the books for many year. I remember getting them
back in the 80s for free. What is new, is the ability to access them
via the internet. I am thinking it was during the Regan administration
that the law was passed. At that time, considering there was no
internet as it is today you had to request the reports in writing.


Chip Cryderman

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From: davidesan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Last Laugh! Spammer, age 35, Meets "Moscow Rules"
Date: 29 Jul 2005 07:24:54 -0700


According to the Hasbro Web site:

Object:

Mr. Boddy -- apparently the victim of foul play -- is found in
one of the rooms of his mansion. To win, you must determine
the answers to these three questions:

Who done it? Where? and with What Weapon?

Equipment:

Clue Game Board: This shows nine rooms in Mr. Boddy's mansion.

6 colored tokens, each representing one of the Suspects:
Colonel Mustard -- yellow; Miss Scarlet -- red; Professor
Plum -- purple; Mr. Green -- green; Mrs. White -- white; and
Mrs. Peacock -- blue.

6 miniature weapons: Rope, Lead Pipe, Knife, Wrench, Candlestick,
Revolver.

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