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TELECOM Digest     Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:20:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 415

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    eBay to Acquire Skype (Monty Solomon)
    eBay to Purchase Skype (Eric Auchard)
    Cellular-News for Monday 12th September 2005 (cellular-news)
    Review: 'Prison Break' TV Show (Lisa Hancock4)
    Re: Laptops Turn On, Tune in to Seattle Metro's New WiFi (C.Cryderman)
    Re: Katrina Aftermath (Joseph)
    EBay Buys Skype for $2.6 Billion (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Re: Internet Satellite Imagery Under Fire Over Security (Joseph)
    Re: Interesting Cellphone and Mastercard Tidbit (Joseph)
    Re: Interesting Cellphone and Mastercard Tidbit (No Spam)
    Re: NYC Phone Rates, was: Sid Ceasar and Phones in Comedy (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Verizon Complaints About EVDO; Angry About Junxion Box (J. Shelton)
    Re: Verizon Complaints About EVDO; Angry About Junxion Box (Joseph)

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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:50:46 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: eBay to Acquire Skype


     eBay to Acquire Skype
     - Sep 12, 2005 06:00 AM (BusinessWire)

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2005--eBay Inc.

www.ebay.com has agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies
SA, the global Internet communications company, for approximately $2.6
billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential
performance-based consideration. The acquisition will strengthen
eBay's global marketplace and payments platform, while opening several
new lines of business and creating significant new monetization
opportunities for the company. The deal also represents a major
opportunity for Skype to advance its leadership in Internet voice
communications and offer people worldwide new ways to communicate in a
global online era. Skype, eBay and PayPal will create an unparalleled
ecommerce and communications engine for buyers and sellers around the
world.

     - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=51709287


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This summary arrived from Monty about
the time that the full story came over the Reuters wire system, so I
am going to present it next.  PAT]

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From: Eric Auchard <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: EBay to Purchase Skype
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:21:47 -0500


By Eric Auchard

EBay Inc. has agreed to buy the fast-growing Internet start-up Skype
in a move to add free Web telephone calls to its online auctions and
fuel growth, the companies confirmed on Monday.

EBay said it plans to pay $1.3 billion in cash and $1.3 billion in
stock for the Web communications company. It would make a further
payout of up to $1.5 billion by 2008 or 2009 if financial targets are
met, giving the deal a total value of up to $4.1 billion, executives
of the two companies said.

EBay is renowned for an Internet business model linking millions of
buyers and sellers, but its core U.S. market is maturing, slowing to
annual growth of between 20 percent and 30 percent a year, compared
with 50 percent international growth.

Skype, which said it expects revenue of $60 million this year and more
than $200 million in 2006, has raced to the lead in the booming
voice-over-Internet (VOIP) market, which is being aggressively
targeted by online powerhouses like Yahoo, Google and Microsoft.

In just two years, Skype has attracted 54 million members to its free
Internet-based voice service and is on pace to roughly double in size
within a year.

Skype, whose software allows consumers to make free or low-cost phone
calls anywhere in the world via the Internet, would be the biggest
acquisition so far for 10-year-old eBay.

"We are really buying a new business," eBay Chief Financial Officer
Rajiv Dutta said in a phone interview.

He drew parallels to eBay's expansion into online payments with its
$1.5 billion acquisition in 2002 of PayPal, which drew initial
criticism as a bid to compete in the banking business but thrust eBay
into the lead of the online-payment market.

CORE BUSINESS

"Is eBay diverting from its core business?" Dutta asked of Skype.
"Nothing could be further from the truth."

PayPal is on track for $1 billion in sales in 2005, Dutta noted. "We
see the same kind of opportunity here with Skype."

Luxembourg-based Skype offers a free service when users make
computer-to-computer calls to other Skype users. Charges apply when
Skype users make calls to regular phone numbers.

But in a move to strengthen the bonds between eBay buyers and sellers,
the company will also encourage eBay merchant sites to use Skype
software to allow customers with last-minute sales questions to click
to talk to a customer service agent.

Executives of the two companies justified the combination by saying
that the power of so-called "click-to-call" services to convert
shoppers into buyers represents a far more lucrative form of selling
proposition than advertising can. Skype also plans to add video
calling and other features to its software.

"Once we integrate communications into e-commerce, we think that
(Skype) is going to remove considerable friction" from the buying and
selling process, Dutta said.

Nearly half Skype's users live in Europe, a quarter are in Asia and an
eighth are in North America, providing eBay with a large immediate
audience as it seeks to expand outside of its core North America
market where rapid growth is stabilizing.

The deal is expected to complete in the fourth quarter.

Skype expects to generate $60 million in revenue this year and more
than $200 million during 2006, Skype's Chief Operating Officer Michael
Jackson said in a joint interview with Dutta. The company has yet to
post a profit, he said, adding that business users account for 25
percent of Skype's audience.

The acquisition will cut eBay's earnings by a penny per share in each
quarter until the end of 2006 before it begins to positively
contribute to eBay's profitability, Dutta said.

VALUE CREATION

EBay must convince analysts and investors that the deal is necessary
to stoke new streams of revenue growth and is worth the
multibillion-dollar price paid.

"We have some very high goals ... related to active users, gross
profits and revenue," Dutta said. "(The goals) would translate into
very significant value creation for eBay," he added, though he
declined to spell out the targets.

While allowing potential benefits from providing communications
services between buyers and sellers, particularly in China, Goldman
Sachs analyst Anthony Noto said in a note to clients on Friday that a
licensing partnership could accomplish this without requiring eBay buy
Skype.

"We struggle to see enough of a benefit to the marketplace from offering
this service to get a sufficient return on a potential
multibillion-dollar price tag," Noto wrote.

As of October 2004, Skype had raised $24 million from several private
equity firms including Mangrove Capital Partners, Draper Fisher
Jurvetson, Bessemer Venture Partners and Index Ventures.

"It may be that all the pieces add up for eBay into a new line of
business," Kelsey Group analyst Greg Sterling said in an interview
before the merger was confirmed. "It really seems like a big departure
for eBay."

(Additional reporting by Adam Pasick and Kirstin Ridley in London).

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Subject: Cellular-News for Monday 12th September 2005
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:43:05 -0500
From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news.com>


Cellular-News - www.cellular-news.com

  Digicel Cleared for Cingular Takeover

  Digicel Group has announced that the Government of St. Lucia has
  approved the acquisition by Digicel of the Cingular Wireless?
  operation on the island. This is another significant milestone for
  Digicel in compl...

  Benefon Developing a GSM Watch

Finland's Benefon has signed an agreement to acquire the product
designs of a GSM watch currently owned by Satelinx Inc. Benefon will
be testing the capability of the GPS/GSM/GPRS watch in relation to its
own c...


  Japan's Mobile Handset Manufacturers Face Difficult Times

Fitch Ratings has issued a report which says that despite recent
positive trends in the domestic mobile handset market, reflected by
the almost 35% increase in 3G mobile handsets, the long-term prognosis
for Ja...

  Sagem Expands Chinese Cellphone Venture

France's Sagem has signed an MoU with China's Ningbo BIRD to extend
their existing handset partnership. Sagem Communication and Ningbo
BIRD begun their collaboration back in 1999 through the sales in China
by N...

  Hurricane Katrina Impacts Semiconductor Wafer Supply

Hurricane Katrina has caused the shutdown of a New Orleans facility
owned by Air Products and Chemicals Inc. that produces hydrogen used
in the manufacturing of silicon wafers, a development that could
impact g...

  India's Telephone Density Passes 10%

India's telecoms penetration rate has passed the 10% mark, reports the
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. As per a compilation done by
TRAI based on latest reports from operators/ association, the
subscribe...

  Blocking SMS Spam

Jinny Software has launched SMS and MMS spam blocker for operators.
The Jinny Spam Control Centre offers SPAM filtering to reduce the
occurrence of message spamming and helps maintain the required
reputation of...

  Siemens Wins 3G Contract in Latvia

Latvia's major telecommunications provider, Tele2 has contracted with
Siemens to expand its GSM network and build a complete 3G/W-CDMA
network infrastructure. The contract includes the expansion of the
radio an...

  Human Brain Inspires Memory for Cellphones

Mobile phones could one day have the memory capacity of a desktop
computer thanks to a microchip that mimics the functioning of the
brain, scientists report in the journal, Science. Researchers from
Imperial Co...

  International Roaming With Somalia

Somalia's Somafone has deployed international roaming and SMS
capabilities from Tecore Wireless Systems. As the political situation
in Somalia continues to stabilize with the establishment of a new
government, ...


  Limited Wireless Calls Going Through In New Orleans
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14019.php

Cellular phone coverage is steadily improving in New Orleans, but
submerged areas, restricted areas and safety concerns still
complicate repairs. ...

  Ericsson To Upgrade Network For Malaysian Operator Maxis
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14020.php

Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Telefon AB LM Ericsson
(ERICY) Friday said it has received a contract to expand and upgrade
the network of Malaysian operator Maxis Communications BHD
(5051.KU). ...


  Japan's Access To Buy U.S. PalmSource
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14021.php

Access Co. a Japanese information equipment software developer, said
Friday it will buy PalmSource Inc. (PSRC) in a Y35.8 billion bid to
expand its mobile device software line. ...

  Vodafone Seeks Options For Swedish 3G Network Build
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14022.php

Vodafone Group PLC's (VOD) struggling Swedish unit is exploring many
possible alternatives for achieving the required coverage for its
third-generation mobile telecom network, the unit's president told Dow
Jones Newswire...

  Motorola Buys Mitsubishi Electric Research Center
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14023.php

Motorola Inc. (MOT) bought a research center in Rennes, France, and a
European i-mode design team from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (6503.TO)
unit Melco Mobile Communication Europe. ...

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Review: 'Prison Break' TV Show
Date: 12 Sep 2005 10:20:39 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


A telecom inaccuracy in this show:

1) He uses a payphone in the prison yard and you hear the coin drop at
the end of the call.

2) He uses a quarter from his pocket to unscrew something.

Prison inmates are never allowed to have any money; money in prison
leads to problems.  He would not have a quarter to begin with and the
payphone wouldn't take coins.

Secondly, the inmate's phone would be in a secured area since only
authorized inmates could make calls on it.

Third, screws, nuts, and bolts in prisons are all specialized hardware
to prevent exactly what he was trying to do.  You need special tools
with odd shapes to do anything.  Furniture is often plastic one piece
to prevent what he was trying to do as well as for safety (throwing it
on top of someone).  He would not have been able to remove the bolt
from the bench, nor use the bolt to remove the toilet wall.

Cell searches are far more through that what was shown--they go
through anything and everything to check for contraband drugs, hooch,
and shivs and shanks.  Shivs and shanks are a major problem.

The Discovery Channel and MSNBC has some good documentaries on prison
life, the inmates, and the corrections officers.

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Subject: Re: Laptops Turn On, Tune in to Seattle Metro's New WiFi 
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:34:52 -0400
From: Charles Cryderman <Charles.Cryderman@globalcrossing.com>


John Shelton stated:

> I am an unpaid mouthpiece for free enterprise.  I am currently on
> long-term medical leave from a NON telecom company.

I guess I was being a little harsh in calling you a 'mouthpiece' and
do hope your health gets better.

> It is wrong for SBC to achieve monopoly via political maneuvering,
> and it is wrong for the local government to build a tax-subsidized
> monopoly. The only fair thing to do is let all interested parties
> offer service. If no one finds it economical to do so, that
> doesn't imply a government mandate.  It might be nice if we all
> had original 17th century oil paintings in our houses, but "nice"
> doesn't cut it.

One thing I didn't say in my first post, they (the county government)
is building the wireless network but the plan is to have it open to
anyone that wishes to access it with consumers choosing who provides
the internet portal. The County isn't going to do anything more then
run the network. Consumers still have to work with a ISP for
content. As I said before if SBC or Comcrap would do it I'd go that
route, I also believe in "free enterprise" but seeing as they are
spending money to stop the county yet not spending s dime on providing
it themselves I think they are wrong.


Chip Cryderman

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From: Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Katrina Aftermath
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:50:08 -0700
Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com


On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:41:28 -0500, Stephanie N. Mehta
<fortune@telecom-digest.org>  wrote:

> Now, some regulators and consumers are asking a simple question: How
> can we build a better phone network-one that withstands the rigors of
> disasters such as Hurricane Katrina or the attacks of September 11?

Well, to make a network 100% capable of never having any disruptions
would likely mean that a company would have to dedicate a 100%
one-to-one connection for each line that they service.  Of course to
do that the companies would have to raise their rates at least 100% if
not more to finance all the extra equipment necessary to accomplish
this. Networks are engineered for not 100% use of every line all at
once. Too many people taking their phones off the hook and talking to
another person will tie up a circuit.  That scenario times however
many people have service will of course make a busy condition on
circuits and equipment.

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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:59:38 EDT
From: "USTelecom dailyLead " <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: EBay Buys Skype for $2.6 Billion


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From: Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Internet Satellite Imagery Under Fire Over Security
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:01:08 -0700
Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com


On 10 Sep 2005 22:56:48 GMT, Ed Clarke <clarke@cilia.org> wrote:

> It's all bullshit. Anyone who wants these images can get them with very
> little difficulty.

Of course it is.  Just as in several mobile forums people argue when
someone asks where mobile towers are the answer often given is that
"it's proprietary" when a simple search on Google or other search
engine provides you with the answer very easily.

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From: Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Interesting Cellphone and Mastercard Tidbit
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:03:29 -0700
Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com


On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:18:04 GMT, tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A.
Horsley) wrote:

> I updated my Mastercard records with my new "home" phone back when I
> got rid of the land line, but apparently the system they have for
> activating credit cards can't deal with cell phone numbers (the human
> I eventually got to talk to told me they are woking on it).

> I know my phone generates valid caller ID, since I've seen it show up
> on the phones of people I called. I also know FPL's power outage
> automated system can recognize me when I call and correlate my
> cellphone to my home address to tell me about the state of any power
> outage, so I gotta wonder what the difficulty is at Mastercard.  --

It's likely that they're using ANI which may show the number your
cellphone is using to outdial rather than your actual number.

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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:10:57 -0400
From: No Spam <nospam@resi.com>
Subject: Re: Interesting Cellphone and Mastercard Tidbit


tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley) wrote on Date: Sun, 
11 Sep 2005 02:18:04 GMT:

> I just tried to activate my updated credit card with the new
> expiration date for the first time since abandoning my land line and
> going strictly cellphone.

> I updated my Mastercard records with my new "home" phone back when I
> got rid of the land line, but apparently the system they have for
> activating credit cards can't deal with cell phone numbers (the human
> I eventually got to talk to told me they are woking on it).

> I know my phone generates valid caller ID, since I've seen it show up
> on the phones of people I called. I also know FPL's power outage
> automated system can recognize me when I call and correlate my
> cellphone to my home address to tell me about the state of any power
> outage, so I gotta wonder what the difficulty is at Mastercard.  --

Classic misunderstanding/misconfiguration between ANI and CPN.
Toll-free numbers get 'ANI' from the carrier, which is a billing
number, not necessarily a calling party number.  Many carriers have
been substituting CPN in place of ANI when they deliver ANI streams
for 8xx calls, but it varies.  There is also a dependency on how the
cell provider is configured -- in this day and age it would be possible
for them to send the cellular number as both ANI and CPN, if they are
so configured and their interconnect agreements with other carriers
allow.


Joshua

My opinions are my own and not necessarily those of my employer,
but sometimes we agree. 

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: NYC Phone Rates, was: Sid Ceasar and Phones in Comedy
Date: 12 Sep 2005 10:12:52 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


NOTvalid@XmasNYC.Info wrote:

> Danny Burstein wrote:

>> In <telecom24.411.18@telecom-digest.org> Wesrock@aol.com writes:
>> Bit by bit the 75 message unit allowace got cut down, so nowadays
>> there's nothing there there. On the slight plus side back in the
>> 1970s the "local area" for untimed calls expanded to the entire
>> city.

> Also cut out is the discount for LOCAL calls made in evening and night
> altho Verizon kept itemizing how many were made eve and night.

IIRC, more distant Message Unit calls in NYC were timed.  Immediate
local calls were untimed, but more distant calls had a charge, such as
one unit for every two minutes and the even further calls one unit for
every minute.  There was a complex chart in the phone book that
explained it all.

Philadelphia used and continues to use a similar system to this day.
It's called "measured service now" but the principles are the same--an
non-itemized aggregate of cost for intermediate local calls in the
"Metropolitan Calling Area".  In contrast to the above, in more recent
years discounts are given for night/weekend calls, in the past there
were no discounts for offpeak calling.  Also, in more recent years
boundaries were liberalized and basically the charges declined.

Based on the Bell System history, many big cities had measured
service.  Adding meters to each line for panel switching did not seem
to be a big deal; indeed, I think it was part of the plan.  I don't
think adding meters to SxS was that hard either as it was done in the
1940s for Los Angeles.

Note that cities had fairly large calling areas and the opportunity to
reach literally millions of people on a local call.  In contrast,
small towns had a much smaller calling area before going toll and far
fewer people to reach.  So you in a small town could call your next
door neigbhor for free, but your cousin in the next town was a toll
call.

For example, the regional high school serving my area covers a fairly
large geographic area.  End to end is a toll call, in the middle are
message unit calls, and local calls within narrow spots.  You can see
the contrast in calling options and fees for a kid in a city high
school (measured, but cheap) and a suburban kid (either free or toll).

Remember too the Brady Bunch episode discussed here where too many
calls were being made and the parents clamped down on the kids.
Obviously they had measured service.  (In a modern house with six kids
with three adults.  Hmm, yeah right.  Geez, even in those days
families like that were putting in second lines for the kids to use;
the phoneco even had combo packages.)

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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:40:53 -0700
From: John L. Shelton <john@jshelton.com>
Subject: Re: Verizon Complaints About EVDO; Angry About Junxion Box


> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I am not that familiar at all with
> 'Evdo'; are any Digest readers (possibly also Verizon customers)
> able to explain it and talk about it here? PAT]

EVDO is just another cellular data technology. The technology is 
irrelevant to the argument.

The moral issue is: whether an "unlimited" service sold to an
individual can be shared with others.  Past history suggests "no." We
don't share our unlimited local phone lines with the neighborhood, nor
our cable TV. We don't rent one trash pickup in the nbhd and tell
everyone to bring their trash on over to one house for pickup. We
don't jam everyone possible into a car at the drive-in theatre in an
effort to avoid paying for extra cars. In places with unmetered water
(like NYC), we don't extend hoses to our neighbors so they don't have
to pay for a basic water hookup.

It is common that unmeasured services are for the benefit of the
subscriber alone. It's more than common and moral; these concepts have
been tested in court, though perhaps not with EVDO.

Let's hope, for the benefit of most subscribers, that the networks
prevail in this issue. Far better to have millions of people paying a
reasonable fee for service than just a handful of "suckers" paying
vastly higher rates so the rest of the community gets service for
free.

John
john@jshelton.com

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From: Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Verizon Complaints About EVDO; Angry About Junxion Box
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:57:06 -0700
Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com


On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:48:05 -0500, Patrick Townson
<ptownson@telecom-digest.org>  wrote:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I am not that familiar at all with
> 'Evdo'; are any Digest readers (possibly also Verizon customers) 
> able to explain it and talk about it here? PAT]

Evolution Data Only or Evolution Data Optimized, often abbreviated as
EVDO, EV-DO, EvDO, 1xEV-DO or 1xEvDO is a wireless radio broadband
data protocol being adopted by many CDMA mobile phone providers in
Brazil, Japan, Korea, Israel, the United States, Australia and Canada
as part of the cdma2000 standard. 1xEVDO is pronounced "One Ex-E:-
Vee-Dee-Oh." It is commonly referred in the industry as DO (Dee-Oh).
Compared to 1xRTT networks currently being used by operators, or the
GPRS and EDGE networks employed by their GSM competitors, 1xEV-DO is
significantly faster, providing access terminals with download speeds
of up to 2.4 Mbit/s. Only terminals with 1xEV-DO chipsets can take
advantage of the higher speeds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evdo

[Google is a very helpful thing at times!]

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