TELECOM Digest     Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:04:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 410

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    German Thief Nabbed After Online Sale to Victim (Reuters News Wire)
    Observers Tally Storm Telecom Toll (Mark Sullivan)    
    Cellular-News for Thursday 8th September 2005 (cellular-news)
    Re: Laptops and Seattle Transit (John L. Shelton)
    iPod Phone Isn't Perfect, but It's a Start (Monty Solomon)
    IEC's Broadband World Forum Hosts Cutting-Edge Triple-Play (Lisa Reyes)
    Texas Alters Franchise Law, Opens Way for Telco (USTelecom dailyLead)

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From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: German Thief Nabbed After Online Sale to Victim
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:24:49 -0500



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Today, I decided to save the best for
first ... PAT]

A German thief stole a man's in-car navigation system and unwittingly
auctioned it online back to his victim, who had police arrest him,
authorities said on Wednesday.

Police in Berlin said the 26-year-old victim spotted the device on an
Internet auction site and quickly re-acquired what he had reported
stolen from his car some two weeks previously.

He informed police, who went to the thief's house posing as the buyers
and then arrested the 21-year-old.

"I think the thief got a bit of a surprise," said a Berlin police
spokesman, adding the man confessed to the theft.


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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Although this would have worked as a
'last laugh' feature, I was inspired by the clumsy stupidity of the
thief and decided to present it early on in this issue.

I am very much reminded of the incident three weeks ago where the
'nice young man' showed up here at my house on one of the hotter, more
humid days of this summer asking for a drink of water and a chance to
use my bathroom, which I allowed. Afterward, as Timothy Garotte was
acting so grateful and lovey-dovey about the water and the bathroom,
he walked off with a box of unused checks of mine, which were for use
on our local bank. I did not even find out about it until the next
day, when a woman who is my part time housekeeper called from her
other (full time) job on the other side of town to ask me if I had
given an okay for this fellow to come in with my checks to purchase
cigarettes and get cash back. Not just once, but _three times_ that
day and again the next morning. If Timothy had not been so damn dumb
and instead had gone out to Walmart, he could have pulled it off,
mainly since Walmart is friends of no one here in town, nor would
they have bothered to inquire, as the cashier at Mikey's Conoco 
station thought to do. Fortunatly for me, police had the guy the
same day, a few minutes after he was on his _fourth trip_ to the
station for cigarettes and cash back. According to police officer
John Edwards, my instance was 'almost a record' in the time from
offense to capture, much like the German lad who ripped off the
man's automobile GPSunit, then turned around and sold it back to
him via E-Bay a few days later. It makes me glad to be part of a
small town where the merchants know all the citizens and care about
them.  PAT]

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From: Mark Sullivan <lightreading@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Observers Tally Storm Telecom Toll
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:38:22 -0500


"Anyway ... I finally contact my friend; she is OK in Houston ... so
sad that she is homeless now ... but well ... she is alive ... thanks
God!"

So reads a message from the Vonage Holdings Corp. user bulletin board
dated August 29th. And it brings to light one of the hard lessons of
Katrina: Most of our fancier communications services like VOIP and
cellular are only as reliable as the basic utilities -- like the PSTN
and public power -- that underpin them (see various articles on Katrina).

In the example above, the Vonage user's friend in Houston probably
couldn't be reached because of damage to the PSTN in the area, on
which Vonage relies to route much of its long-distance traffic.

Pure VOIP systems like Skype (excluding SkypeOut) were't much more
useful, observers say. Those pure VOIP calls don't connect to the
PSTN, but they still use an electrically-powered modem. Calls to Skype
for usage levels on this story were not returned by deadline.

Captain Ralph Mitchell of the Louisiana State Police tells Light
Reading that most people in and around New Orleans are relying more on
cell phone communication in the wake of the storm, but even that may
be temporary.

Cellular service too is tied to the availablity of power and the
PSTN. And cellphones need electricity to recharge. Cell towers need
power to transmit calls to the main switch and a connection to the
PSTN for getting traffic from the cell cites to the main switch.

The various breakdowns in communications services are a central cause
of the poor emergency response to Katrina. Today, the main challenge
is evacuating the city, yet as many as 10,000 remain, despite orders
from both FEMA and the mayor that everybody must go.

"The problem is that these people are cut off from communications, and
they have to be convinced that this problem is really serious,"
Mitchell says. "I don't know if they still have cell phones that work.
After all, the storm struck a week ago Saturday; most people don't
have electricity, so I don't think they have a way to recharge their
batteries."

T-Mobile USA believes many of its users in the storm-affected areas
are using cellular text messaging to communicate. Unlike cell phone
calls, text messaging traffic relies on microwave signals, not PSTN
lines, to get from the cell towers to the main switch in New Orleans.
"From there they can be transmitted anywhere," says T-Mobile spokes-
man Peter Dobrow.

T-Mobile says that calls in and out of its New Orleans market, which
extends to surrounding cities Baton Rouge and Slidell, usually number
about 1.4 million a day. On the day Katrina hit, August 29, that
number fell to 600,000. Many T-Mobile cell towers had gone down in the
region, but were soon restored, Dobrow says. The call numbers then
rose to 1.1 million on the 30th, then back to 1.4 million on the 31st.

Cellular traffic throughout the Gulf Coast region is now "at or
exceeding normal usage levels," according to Dobrow.

Vonage spokeswoman Brooke Schulz says Vonage call volume from the
affected region has gone down by about 60 percent since the storm.

"At our New Orleans PSTN connection we saw our inbound traffic from
our CLEC partner completely cease at around 1PM on 8/29; it was not
turned up again until 7AM on 8/30," Schulz wrote in an email to Light
Reading on Monday. "Our circuits were up and running throughout that
time, but no inbound calls were coming through to us during that
time."

While Vonage acknowledges the service outage, it puts the blame on the
failure of the local communications infrastructure. Vonage pays a
tariff to local CLECs to access the PSTN around the region (see
'Madison River Eyes Damage').

"If that CLEC goes down or that CLEC gets flooded with calls or if
that physical connection is somehow disrupted, we can get the calls
into Vonage -- it's not Vonage that goes down -- but the CLEC side
can't get the calls to us," Schulz says.

In the days following the Katrina's landfall, local CLECs scrambled to
get their infrastructures operable again. But Katrina hit ten days
ago, and still most PSTN calls to the Gulf Coast region end with the
sound of recorded announcement saying: "Due to the hurricane in the
area you are calling..."

Even if the CLEC and the PSTN had been operable, most VOIP users
wouldn't have noticed -- much of the region was without power in the
days after Katrina hit. According to statements by local utilities,
the power may be off in some areas of New Orleans for many days to
come while floodwaters are drained from the city. Capt. Mitchell says
90 percent of New Orleans is still "without basic services."

A Wall Street Journal report Monday estimated 1.8 million phone lines
were disabled. Officials say the task of getting communications back
to normal could take weeks, partly because much of the damaged
infrastructure is still underwater.

The major carrier in the region, BellSouth Corp.  believes as many as
750,000 of its landline customers and millions of cellphone customers
were without service across Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi (see
'BellSouth Assesses Katrina').

by Mark Sullivan, Reporter, Light Reading

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Subject: Cellular News Report
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 07:37:28 -0500
From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news.com>


Changes to cellular-news

We are pleased to announce a new service on cellular-news that will
enable you to read the web site without seeing any advertisements
whatsoever. We are also about to launch a range of "premium" news
articles -- which will be made available to readers of TELECOM Digest.
Watch for this new feature daily in the TELECOM Digest.


  Alcatel Wins GSM Contract
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13996.php

Alcatel has been awarded a contract by Sun Cellular, the mobile brand
of Digital Mobile Philippines (DMPI) in the Philippines, to expand the
operator's GSM/GPRS mobile network capacity. This contract,...


  CMOS Grows on Mobile-Phone Transceivers
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13997.php

CMOS process technology is enjoying increasing use in Radio Frequency
(RF) transceiver chips of mobile phones and by 2009 will be employed
in 40% of wireless handsets shipped, iSuppli Corp. predicts.

  Satisfaction with Wireless Service Providers Decreasing
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13998.php

Overall satisfaction performance with the USA's wireless service
providers has decreased 10% over 2004, the biggest year-over-year
change since the study's inception, according to the J.D. Power and
A...

  Email, Weather, and Search Top Mobile Internet Use
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13995.php
Telephia has reported that email, weather and search websites are the
most popular categories among consumers logging online via their
mobile phones. According to Telephia's newly launched Mobile Inte...

  HSDPA Added to Handheld Wireless RF Field Tester
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13999.php
Tektronix has announced the addition of the High Speed Downlink Packet
Access (HSDPA) software option to its NetTek Wireless RF Field
Tester. Tektronix says that it is the first manufacturer to provid...

  Telular Wins LatAm Fixed Cellular Handset Orders
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14000.php
Telular Corp. says that it has received purchase orders totaling
US$22.9 million for business with multiple Latin American wireless
network operators in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and
Ve...

  Dual-Mode Smart Phones to Lead Fixed Mobile Convergence Push
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14001.php
The fixed line phone, long a fixture in 95% of USA homes and offices,
is about to be replaced by new smart phone technology capable of
working as reliably as a fixed line phone in the home or office a...

  Motorola Finally Shows Off iPod Mobile Phone
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14002.php
Motorola and Apple have finally announced the availability of the
world's first mobile phone with iTunes, enabling music lovers to
transfer up to 100 of their favorite songs from the iTunes jukebox
on...

  Ericsson: Plans US$1 Billion Invest In China Next Five Years
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13986.php

Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Telefon AB LM Ericsson
(ERICY) plans to invest US$1 billion in China over the next five
years, Mats H. Olsson, president of Ericsson Greater China, said
Wedn...

  Ericsson To Supply HSDPA To Cellcom In Israel
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13987.php
Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Telefon AB LM Ericsson
(ERICY) Wednesday said it has recieved an order from Israel mobile
operator Cellcom, to supply a third generation/HSDPA radio network....

  China Expected To Issue 3G Licenses Early 2006
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13988.php
Telefon AB LM Ericsson (ERICY) expects China to issue third-generation
telecommunications licenses early next year, a senior executive at the
Swedish telecom equipment maker said Wednesday.

  Ericsson Signs Managed Services Contract With Sonaecom
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13989.php
Telefon AB LM Ericsson (ERICY) said Wednesday it has signed a
five-year managed services contract with Portuguese telecom group
Sonaecom S/A (SNC.LB).

The company didn't give financial detai...

  New Orleans Police Seek Snipers Firing At Phone Workers
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13990.php
NEW ORLEANS (AP)--There are reports from New Orleans of shots being
fired at cellphone workers on towers trying to restore service.
Authorities have been going door to door at nearby apartme...

  FCC Official: 1 Million Phone Lines Out In Katrina Area
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13991.php
More than 1 million customer phone lines and over 20 switching centers
remain out of service in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, a
Federal Communications Commission official said Wednesday.  ...

  FCC Asks Wireless Cos. To Pledge No Cutoff Post Katrina
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13992.php
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday told wireless
carriers to continue providing cellphone service to customers affected
by Hurricane Katrina even if their bills are unpaid.

  Ericsson CFO: Not A Great Believer In Mega Mergers
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13993.php
L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co.'s (ERICY) chief financial officer said he
wasn't a "great believer in mega-mergers."  "I believe you create your
own value," said Karl-Henrik Sundstrom. He added t...

  Vodafone Japan Gains Net 3,600 Mobile Phone Users In Aug
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/13994.php 
The Japanese unit of Vodafone Group Plc. (VOD) said Wednesday it
gained a net 3,600 subscribers to its mobile phone services in August.
Vodafone K.K. had 14,988,200 customers as of the end o...

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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:55:52 -0700
From: John L. Shelton <john@jshelton.com>
Subject: Re: Laptops Tune On, Tune In to Seattle Metro's Transit


John Stahl quoted a newspaper writer:

> I wish more cities would get gutsy and fight the local Teleco
> incumbent (it seems that they and the cable provider think they "own"
> connection to the Internet) to put FREE Wi-FI every where (especially
> on busses with the high cost of fuel) they want. I haven't heard if
> Philly and other cities have given up their quest and fight to put in
> these systems.

The cities aren't doing this for free. They tax their citizens (and
visitors are taxed more than citizens) to provide these allegedly nice
services. Do you really want your cities expanding their budgets and
spending on things that commercial vendors are happy to compete to do?
Perhaps they should go build levees or something that others don't
want to do.

Why is wi-fi on the bus good for citizens who don't ride, or don't
have laptops? For you left-thinkers out there, why are your cities
catering to the wealthier bus riders? Why not free coffee, of value to
all bus riders?  (Dallas tried that trick in the 1970s, but people
still drove to work.)

When foreign governments subsidize industry, many of you call it
"dumping" and protest it. But if Seattle does the same thing, again
depriving someone of a job, you call it good.

The only "fair" thing is to allow competition from all providers and
for government to step back and try to do well in the few areas we
entrust to it. If a city prevents competition, the solution isn't
letting only the city compete: it's real competition.

*sigh*

=John=
john@jshelton.com

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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 08:11:53 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: iPod Phone Isn't Perfect, but It's a Start


David Pogue
September 8, 2005

IPOD phone. It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

You'd better believe it. When Apple announced that it was about to
unveil something big, its stock price zoomed to a record high. The
Gizmodo Web site posted an exhibit of no fewer than 24 different faked
"iPod phone" photos that have circulated online. Gadget freaks
worldwide went foamy at the mouth.

Now, plenty of current cellphones can already play music -- but not
with Apple's sense of style and polish. They can't play songs from
Apple's iTunes Music Store, either, which is where 10 million people
 -- more than 80 percent of the world's online song buyers -- get them.

So questions about the new iPod phone flew thick and fast in nerd
circles. Will it look cool, like an iPod? Will it have the iPod's
famous click wheel on the front? Will the phone have a hard drive that
can hold thousands of songs? Will you be able to download songs
straight from the Internet? Will it have a FireWire or U.S.B. 2.0
connector for superfast music transfer? Will you be able to use your
songs as ring tones, so that the phone bursts out in "You Make Me Feel
Like a Natural Woman" when your husband calls?

All became clear on a San Francisco stage yesterday morning when
Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief, took the wraps off two new products.
One was a new iPod model - the iPod nano - that's so thin, it looks
like a traditional white (or black) iPod that's been squished by a
steamroller. Its two models ($199 and $249) hold 500 and 1,000 songs
in memory; there's no hard drive, which helps the nano crank out 14
hours of music on a charge.

The other new product was, yes, a new combination cellphone and music
player, a collaboration among Apple, Cingular and Motorola, called the
Rokr E1, which will cost $250 with a new Cingular contract. (Ever
since its Razr phone became a hit, Motorola's been on a roll with its
omitted-letter naming scheme.)

ALL right, now, about those questions: the answer to all of them is no.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/technology/circuits/08pogue.html?ex=1283832000&en=72979b085595fb7f&ei=5090

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From: Lisa Reyes <forums_@iec.org>
Subject: IEC's Broadband Forum 2005 Hosts Cutting-Edge Triple-Play Session
Date: THU, 8 SEP 2005 11:39:51 -0500
Reply-To: lreyes@iec.org


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Contact: Lisa Reyes
Phone: 1+312+559+3325
E-Mail: mailto:lreyes@iec.org 

IEC's BROADBAND FORUM EUROPE 2005 HOSTS CUTTING-EDGE TRIPLE-PLAY SESSION 

Executive Telecom Providers Share Unique Perspectives for Controlling
Operations Costs throughout Life Cycle of Triple-Play Service Bundles

CHICAGO September 7, 2005 The International Engineering Consortium
(IEC) hosts an unprecedented Future of the Triple Play,
industry overview session led by top-level information industry
executives who will address challenges and share solutions on
broadband convergence at Broadband World Forum Europe, 3 October
in Madrid, Spain.

This distinct industry overview session provides a comprehensive
outlook, bringing together principal leaders from a software provider,
a systems provider, two service providers, and a prominent industry
analyst to one session.

Led by Chairperson Alan Mottram, president, Fixed Solutions division,
Alacatel, panelists include Phil Corman, director, Worldwide Partner
Development, Microsoft TV; Massimo Intorella, vice president,
Strategic Marketing, Telecom Italia Wireline; Paul Berriman, head of
Strategic Market Development, PCCW; and Stphane Tral, managing
director, 10th Street Advisors.

As Mr. Mottram noted the excitement of triple play as the hottest
topic in the industry, he commented, "Everyone wants us to get
everything done yesterday. We are going really fast, but must also be
careful to get it right" [Triple play's] impact will be
significant, even revolutionary.

Mr. Mottram added that the session provides a unique opportunity
to hear different perspectives on the future of triple play.

Granting information on a new approach that builds management
intelligence and automation directly into triple-play services, the
session affords valuable education to telecom professionals worldwide
trying to understand the new management paradigm.

Mr. Corman commented, "Microsoft believes that Internet Protocol (IP)
technology is the future of triple-play and quadruple-play
services. Attendees will learn how to deliver next-generation digital
TV services over their managed, broadband IP networks, and how to
extend this value by connecting them to compatible devices and
services."

The IEC's Broadband World Forum Europe 
http://www.iec.org/events/2005/bbwf/ , unparallel to any other
communications event, expects to host more than 80 exhibitors, more
than 3,000 attendees, and present more than 160 sessions over four
days at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid. The two-day
WiMAX Global ComForum also takes place at the event, addressing
technology and business challenges associated with WiMAX wireless
broadband networks. Encouraging professionals to learn and share
information, both events fulfill the IEC's commitment to catalyzing
positive change in technology, business, and academia.


Contact: Lisa Reyes
Phone: 1+312+559+3325
E-Mail: lreyes@iec.org

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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:50:17 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Texas Alters Franchise Law, Opens Way For Telco


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