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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) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] ------------------------------ 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). Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. For more headline news stories, please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/newstoday.html ------------------------------ 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. ... ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:59:38 EDT From: "USTelecom dailyLead " <ustelecom@dailylead.com> Subject: EBay Buys Skype for $2.6 Billion USTelecom dailyLead September 12, 2005 http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=24527&l=2017006 TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * EBay buys Skype for $2.6 billion BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * Analysis: Vonage must go public soon * Assessing wireless TV's prospects * Q-and-A: Yahoo! design guru Larry Tesler * Oracle buys Siebel USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * In USTA's Telecom Bookstore: "Softswitch Architecture for VoIP" HOT TOPICS * Report sees global IPTV boom * Storm puts telecoms to the test * Texas alters franchise law, opens way for telco TV * J.D. Power reports wireless customer satisfaction ratings * Satellite phones come through in a pinch EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES * Katrina boosts online TV * Nonprofit offers unique VoIP/Wi-Fi solution in Uganda REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * Carriers give discounts, free services to Katrina victims Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=24527&l=2017006 Legal and Privacy information at http://www.dailylead.com/about/privacy_legal.jsp SmartBrief, Inc. 1100 H ST NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20005 ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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.) ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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!] ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. All the contents of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. 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