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TELECOM Digest     Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:38:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 372

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Not so Fast! 'xxx' Startup Put on Hold (Reuters News Wire)
    New Worms Hit US Media Outlets, Companies (Reed Stevenson)
    Telcos Forge Ahead With IPTV (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Early Los Angeles Dialing and Network Management (Lisa Hancock)
    Broadband Competition (John Meissen)
    Re: Stromberg Carlson Company? (George Berger)
    Re: Stromberg Carlson Company? (Carl Navarro)
    Re: Telephone Exchange Usage in Low-Volume States (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Telephone Exchange Usage in Low-Volume States (Neal McLain)
    Re: Bad Customer Service - was FSK Signal for Voicemail (John Meissen) 
    Re: Classic Six Button Sets - Additional Lines in Europe (Chip Cryderman)

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From: News Wire <newswire@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Not so Fast! 'xxx' Startup Put on Hold
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:23:56 -0500


The group that oversees Internet domain names said on Wednesday it had
postponed a decision to set up a special .xxx domain for sex sites
that has drawn opposition from conservative activists.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, was
scheduled to hear the proposal on Tuesday but postponed its decision
until September 15 after the U.S. Commerce Department asked for more
time to hear objections.

In a letter dated August 11, the Commerce Department said it had
received nearly 6,000 letters and e-mails from people who are
concerned that it would make life easier for the online sex industry.

An internal ICANN group that represents the United States and other
governments also asked for more time for public input. The group did
not say which governments had objected to the domain.

ICANN announced in June that it would move ahead with plans to
evaluate the domain, pitched by ICM Registry Inc., a private company
which is proposing to run the domain as a sort of online red-light
district that would enable people to easily find porn or filter it
out.

".XXX was deferred in response to requests from the applicant ICM, as
well as ICANN Government Advisory Committee Chairman's and the US
Department of Commerce's request to allow for additional time for
comments by interested parties," ICANN said in a statement.

Efforts to ban or segregate online pornography have failed in the
United States for years on free-speech grounds.

ICANN in the past has resisted congressional attempts to set up a
domain for sex sites on the grounds that it doesn't want to regulate
online content.

Sex sites wouldn't be required to sign up for .xxx addresses but
allowing ICM to handle the domain would sidestep those issues, an
ICANN spokesman said in June.

That didn't sit well with conservative activists who worry that a .xxx
domain will further legitimize the porn industry and won't make it
easier to avoid sexual content online.

The Family Research Council, a conservative group, has urged its
members to contact the Commerce Department and ICANN, and a Web site
called ConservativePetitions.com says it has gathered 1,867 signatures
opposing the .xxx domain.

In its letter to ICANN, the Commerce Department said it had received
an "unprecedented" volume of correspondence on the issue.

A lawyer who has helped ICM through the application process was not
immediately available for comment.

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From: Reed Stevenson <newswire@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: New Worms Hit US Media Outlets, Companies
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:36:56 -0500


By Reed Stevenson

Several new computer worms were being blamed for causing computer
system outages at some media outlets and companies in the United
States on Tuesday.

The worms, including two called "IRCBOT.WORM" and "RBOT.CBQ," exploit
a recently discovered flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 operating
system and were causing personal computers at more than 100 U.S.
companies to restart repeatedly and potentially exposed them to
attackers who could take control of a system.

"This is the most significant threat we've seen in at least 12
months," said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of the anti-virus
emergency response team at McAfee Inc.

But Symantec Corp. and McAfee, the top two computer security
companies, as well as Microsoft, said that damage to computer systems
on Tuesday was limited and was not likely to cause widespread havoc
like other malicious software programs such as SQL Slammer and MyDoom.

CNN, breaking into regular programming, reported on air that personal
computers at the cable news network were affected by a worm that
caused them to restart repeatedly.

The New York Times and ABC News also reported system outages earlier
on Tuesday, causing some to suspect that another recent worm called
"Zotob" was behind Tuesday's outages.

Gullotto said, however, that the newly discovered worms were different
from Zotob, even though they all, including Zotob, appeared to exploit
the same vulnerability in the "Plug-and-Play" feature in Windows 2000,
which runs on less than half of the world's personal computers.

Microsoft, which warned users last week of three newly found
"critical" security flaws in its software, urged users to update the
software on their personal computers to prevent them from being
infected.

Microsoft said users with properly updated software, anti-virus
software and a firewall can avoid being infected by the worm, a
malicious software program that replicates itself over a computer
network.

The new "IRCBOT.WORM" and "RBOT.CBQ" worms were different in that they
could be controlled by IRC servers, or networked computers that manage
chat sessions over the Internet, other security experts said.

"We haven't seen any huge uptick or impact today," said a spokeswoman
with Microsoft's security unit, "a fairly small number of customers
are being impacted."

Symantec said that it has heard from at least 100 organizations that a
group of about eight viruses were targeting individual organizations
and was not the Internet as a whole.

"This is not across the Internet but inside organizations," said David
Cole, a product management director at Symantec.

CNN , a division of Time Warner Inc., said that computer systems at
General Electric Co., United Parcel Service Inc. and Caterpillar Inc.
were affected by system outages as well.

A GE spokesman said that there appeared to be no problems with GE's
internal network, while UPS said that only a small number of its
computers were affected by a worm or system outage.

"There is no impact whatsoever on operations, customer-facing computer
systems, service or delivery," said UPS spokesman Norman Black.

Caterpillar officials were not immediately available for comment.

ABC is a division of Walt Disney Co.=20

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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:22:19 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Telcos Forge Ahead With IPTV


USTelecom dailyLead
August 17, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23912&l=2017006

		TODAY'S HEADLINES
	
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Telcos forge ahead with IPTV
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Nortel, LG team up for joint venture
* Study: Dual-mode phones will drive VoIP adoption
* Comcast offers security software to broadband subscribers
* Report: Google acquires Android
* Qwest, unions agree on contract deal
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT 
* On-Demand Webinars:  Delivering What's NEXT to Your Desktop
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* Speakeasy helps businesses save using innovative broadband offering
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Muni Wi-Fi by the Bay?
* USTelecom president praises telecom update proposal

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23912&l=2017006

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Early Los Angeles Dialing and Network Management
Date: 16 Aug 2005 19:55:15 -0700


The Bell System history tells that they recognized the traffic of big
cities would not fit on Step-by-Step switching because of the switch's
limited decimal choices.  Panel switching was developed to give more
flexibility and choices in city service.

However, Los Angeles remained Step by step because the Bell System
inherited existing exchanges.  The history says despite things like
graded multiples network mgmt in LA proved difficult, but they did not
elaborate.

I know Bell Labs developed SxS add-ons in the 1960s and 1970s to
improve SxS functionality, but that was much later.  An early short
haul toll itemized message accounting system was developed for LA.

As Los Angeles turned into a big city (1950s?), how did the Bell
System handle inter-exchange traffic within the limits of an SxS
switch?  Did they rely on tandems?  Did they have to overtrunk at high
expense?  Did they put in No 5 Crossbar when it came out?

Thanks.

[public replies, please]

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From: jmeissen@aracnet.com
Subject: Broadband Competition Must Surely be Working
Date: 17 Aug 2005 20:13:07 GMT
Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com


Our government claims their actions are intended to encourage
competition, expand deployment and lower cost of broadband Internet
access. It must be working ...

Verizon is aggressively deploying fiber-to-the-premises here. Because
I use a local independent ISP there has been a lot of concern about
the consequences of this action.

What has now been confirmed by calls to Verizon is that
 - Once the fiber connection is established all services, including
   voice, are moved to the fiber and the copper wires are pulled,
   making it impossible to return to standard DSL in spite of the
   supposed 30-day trial period.
 - The lowest cost package for the fiber connection is 30% more
   expensive than their standard DSL offering
 - They will absolutely NOT allow connections to other ISP's over 
   the fiber connection, essentially limiting ISP's other than
   MSN to dialup customers.
 - The lowest-cost package from Verizon that will allow me to 
   continue to run my own servers and host my own domain (something
   my local independent ISP actively supports) will cost $99/mo.

So, while the landscape today includes a diverse collection of local
and national ISP's with a range of services and cost options, the
future will be dialup at $10-15/month or Comcast or Verizon/MSN at
~$50/mo. No more local businesses, no more local customer service, no
choice of services.

Yes indeed, seems like a major improvement to me.


John Meissen                                           jmeissen@aracnet.com

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From: George Berger <gberger@his.com>
Subject: Re: Stromberg Carlson Company?
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:15:55 -0400
Organization: Heller Information Services


hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

>> Would anyone know any history of this company?  I know that they once
>> made telephones, radios, and PA systems.  I understand "Comdial"
>> phones are an outgrowth of them.  I presume they are long out of
>> business.
 
In the late 1930's my grandparents and parents had Stromberg Carlson
AM radios in the living room to receive what passed, in those days,
for "true to life" recreation of what ever was on the other end at the
microphone.

The sets were strong on polished wood, big speakers with the voice
coils being driven by an a.c. tap rather than speakers using permanent
magnets as we have today, and more sections of RF amplification in the
tuner module than we ever see in this day in age.  As for tubes - -
well, when you turned one on, the temperature in the living room could
rise several degrees. Most were in the RF and AF amplifier stages,
with a pair of 6L6's in push pull used as the output.

Hey!  My first Hi Fi power amp that I built in 1949 used 6L6's and
Partridge transformers and my JBL speakers were housed in home-brewed
enclosures.  Now, I use a Bryston preamp and amplifier and Thiel
3.5's.

Times have really changed!

George (The Old Fud)

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am
not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
            -- Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)

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From: Carl Navarro <cnavarro@wcnet.org>
Subject: Re: Stromberg Carlson Company?
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:32:15 GMT
Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com


On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:37:27 GMT, John McHarry <jmcharry@comcast.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:10:43 +0000, Steven Lichter wrote:

>> I believe the equipment manufacturing division moved to Florida and is
>> part of General Dynamics.  

> They are in Florida, and I think part of Siemens, or they were a while
> back. They were a fairly big supplier to independent telcos, and one
> of the few to make the transition to digital switching. Their DCO
> competed quite well with Northern Telecom's DMS-10 and smaller
> DMS-100s.

Back in 1982, General Dynamics sold off all of the telecommunications
divisons.  The "Stromberg Carlson" telephone manufacturing and ATC,
decorator phones, went to Comdial.  The CO switch manufacturing part
was in Lake Mary, FL and it was not part of the sale as I remember,
but GDCC did not retain it.

Rolm bought Stromberg and later Siemens and now it's called
Siemens-Stromberg.

Carl Navarro

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Telephone Exchange Usage in Low-Volume States
Date: 16 Aug 2005 19:38:27 -0700


Joseph wrote:

> ... I believe private line service is pretty
> much available in all but the most remote areas now.

Could you elaborate on the situation in "the most remote areas"?  Has
it been cost effective to replace an isolated long loop shared party
line with more modern carrier equipment?

I know that in developed areas party lines are obsolete, in some cases
grandfathered in, in some cases not available at all.  But I was
wondering about very isolated rural areas.

>> 2) Five digit dialing in some areas not well populated or served by
>> community dial offices?

> be dialed with all seven numbers with the first few digits "absorbed"
> for local callers.  When ESS came into being that all ended.

As long as the dialing is unique, there is no reason that an ESS
couldn't absorb digits just like an SxS could.

In many places the demand for exchanges is so high that the only way
to create unique dialing is require TEN digits.  But in the states I
mentioned perhaps there is enough 'space' in the exchange assignments
that five digits could still be unique for a town.

In any event, I was also wondering what kind of exchange demand there
was in the states I mentioned with limited population growth and rural
decline.

Robert Bonomi wrote:

>> 2) Five digit dialing in some areas not well populated or served by
>> community dial offices?

> *VERY* rare. Gotta have full numbers, to handle direct-dial inbound
> calls from outside that exchange. Recognizing 'short cut' dialing
> within the exchange raises all sorts of complexities, having to do
> with 'variable length' numbers, and detecting 'end of dialing'.

By 1965 (probably earlier), almost all '5 digit' exchanges had full 10
digit numbers to handle inward calls.  During the 1950s and early
1960s the Bell System was changing exchanges where necessary to make
them unique within an area code.

None the less, the 5-digit dialing capability remained for people
within those small towns.  Letterheads carried phone numbers like
this: (505) 34 5-4111.  Outsiders would dial 505-345-4111, but those
within the town would need only dial 5-4111.  This was easily
accomodated by SxS.

One reason this was possible was because rural areas often had very
small local calling areas, so local dial choices were quite limited.
Anything else required the toll prefix which forwarded the call to a
toll center (or later a SxS add-on memory register).

I should note I had 7 digit dialing to the area code nearby (and they
did to me).  This was possible because our exchanges were unique to
BOTH area codes.  In other words, if I were 555, there'd be no 555 in
the other area code, so there was no confusion.  Obviously when
exchanges became scarce this was abandoned.  First I had to dial all
ten digits to cross the area code, now I have dial 10 digits to call
next door.  This was common in area code border sections.  (To this
day such calls remain local even though they cross the LATA).

As mentioned, it was easy for SxS to handle this, and certainly could
for ESS if conditions and policy permitted it.

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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:38:50 -0500
From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Reply-To: nmclain@annsgarden.com
Subject: Re: Telephone Exchange Usage in Low-Volume States


hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> In many places in the U.S. the demand for telephone exchanges is very
> high for a variety reasons.  This has result in area code splits and
> overlays.  NJ started off with one area code and now has nine.

> But some states still only have one area code.  I understand some
> states are not growing very fast in population, indeed, some rural
> towns are losing population.  This includes:  Alaska, Idaho,
> Montanna, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.  (Not counting 
> some other single-code states).....

I assume that by "exchange," Lisa is referring to an NXX code.

> Given the rural/low growth aspect of places in some of these states,
> I was wondering if telephone service may still have some old 
> fashioned features to it.  For example, would such areas have:

> 2) Five digit dialing in some areas not well populated or served by
> community dial offices?

No.

The misconception here is that, after the introduction of DDD, telcos
retained 4- or 5-digit local dialing as a convenience to users.  Telcos
retained 4- and 5-digit numbering only as a temporary stopgap measure
during the transition from SxS to crossbar or ESS.  

In order to accommodate inbound DDD, it was essential that every
number have a 7-digit format.  But SxS switches couldn't accommodate
7-digit dialing, so telcos faked 7-digit numbers by prepending dummy
digits.  Local calls continued to be dialable with only four or five
digits; however, if a local caller actually dialed all seven digits,
the prepended digits were absorbed by "absorbing selectors" --
i.e. ignored.

This situation led to numerous conflicts between local numbers
(dialable as 4 or 5 digits) and non-toll calls to nearby communities
(dialable as 7 digits).  To avoid such conflicts, telcos had to devise
special dialing plans.  AT&T documents dating from 1975 describe such
dialing plans in detail ["Typical Trunking Diagrams for Step-by-Step
Offices."  "Notes on Distance Dialing."  AT&T Engineering and Network
Services Department, Systems Planning Section, 1975.  Appendix A,
Section 4].
 
The legacy of these old dialing plans can still be seen today in the
numbering assignments of many outlying communities surrounding
mid-sized cities, even though the old SxS switches have long since
been replaced with ESS.  In these communities, most/all of the NXX
codes assigned to the outlying communities start with a numeral that
was not used in the central city in the SxS days.  Two examples that
come to mind:

 -- In Ann Arbor Michigan, local numbers were a combination of 
    four- and five-digit numbers, all served from the same
    central office:

               2-XXXX   Huron office
               3-XXXX   Huron office
             4NX-XXXX   Outlying communities
               5-XXXX   Huron office
                 6XXX   Huron office
                 7XXX   Huron office
                 8XXX   Huron office
                 9XXX   Huron office

    The 4NX codes are still in use today, even though one
    of them (South Lyon 437) is now in a different area
    code (248).

 -- In Madison Wisconsin, all local numbers were five digit,
    served from four central offices:

               2-XXXX   Pflaum office
               3-XXXX   Sylvan office
               4-XXXX   Kedzie office
               5-XXXX   Main office
               6-XXXX   Main office
               7-XXXX   Main office
             8NX-XXXX   Outlying communities
               9-XXXX   Kedzie office
   
    The 8NX codes are still in use today.
 
A third example -- Centerville, Iowa -- was cited by Mark Roberts in a
posting here on TD a couple years ago.  As I noted at the time, even
though Centerville's old SxS switch retained 5-digit dialing, new NNX
codes, even within Centerville itself, would require 7-digit dialing.
http://tinyurl.com/8axyn

Neal McLain

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From: jmeissen@aracnet.com
Subject: Re: Bad Customer Service (was: FSK Signal For Voicemail on MCI)
Date: 17 Aug 2005 19:50:09 GMT
Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com


In article <telecom24.370.16@telecom-digest.org>, Fred Atkinson
<fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote:

> I've long since lost count of how many times customer service and even
> technical support people have given me bad information.  It's really
> pretty sad.

> The telephone, cable, and other high tech companies are hiring lost
> cost people due to the state of the economy over the last few years.
> A number of experienced people have been practically unable to get a
> position during this time.  They are told they are 'overqualified'
> when they apply.  But, the folks they hire are underqualified.  And
> they don't do an adquate job of training the ones they do hire.  The
> truth is, these companies don't want to pay for experience right now.

Sad, but true.

Yesterday I helped an elderly woman restore access to her dial-up MSN
account. It seems it just stopped connecting one day recently, and she
couldn't figure out why.

The MSN support person told her she needed to re-install Windows XP.

It turned out that the real problem was that her dialing sequence had
*70 prepended to disable call-waiting, and she had stopped carrying
call-waiting on her service. Dialing *70 just got the standard "Your
call cannot be completed as dialed" message.

<sigh>


John Meissen                             jmeissen@aracnet.com


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: _Thank you_ for doing the right thing
and helping that elderly lady get her service restarted. She most
likely now thinks of you as a hero for helping her as you did, and I
appreciate it also. For those of us who have _some_ understanding and
abilities with computers, between the worms, other viruses and spam/scam,
these machines are really no longer fun to use. Imagine how people
like your elderly friend -- who probably knows much less than many of
us -- must feel when their computers are repeatedly attacked. I make
no bones about it; the task of getting this Digest out a few times
each day is tiring, given my brain aneuerysm. But like the elderly
lady you helped, I also have a couple of very good friends (I think of
them as my 'tech support staff') who are quite patient with me when I 
get threatened, as I did this past week with the virus in Internet
Explorer. (More than likely it was just the profile which got pretty
well trounced.)When I get frantic trying to clear those messes, these
guys very patiently walk me through how to repair the damage, etc. 
PAT]

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Subject: Re: Classic Six Button KeySets - Additional Lines in Europe 
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:58:20 -0400
From: Charles Cryderman <Charles.Cryderman@globalcrossing.com>


Professor Gary told us:

> Just a historical note, we still had the switch in the I.G. Farben
> Building in Frankfurt that had been installed in 1937-39.  The original
> switch was 400 lines of RP-40.  By the time I was there it had grown to
> about 3,000 lines -- but still RP-40.

Professor, when I left Frankfurt (worked at the Technical Control
Center behind the I. G. Farben building, January 1979-June 1982) that
same switch was still in use there. It was very temperamental but the
biggest problem we ever had was those damn "war" circuits. The
ring-down lines for 5th Corp out to all of the lower command
HQs. Mr. Harold, the line tester, would log them out of service every
morning when the only problem was getting someone just to be there to
answer the dang thing.

By the way, did you know Mr. Harold? The joke we had there was he, Mr.
Harold, was doing the same thing for the US Army that he did when he
worked for the Nazis.

Can't wait to get back to Frankfurt to look around and visit some of
the old hang outs with the wife.


Chip Cryderman

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