TELECOM Digest     Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:30:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 429

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    New Orleans Suspends Re-Opening; Waits for Another Hurricane (Rubinkam)
    Online Credit Card Fraud Getting Ahead of Ability to Stop It (Kelleher)
    Ham Radio Operators Tune in to Hurricane Help (Barbara Carlson)
    Call Wave and Hawaiian Telcom Join Forces (Business Wire)
    ECC Provides VoIP Solutions to Chicago Businesses (Lisa Reyes)
    Cellular-News for Tuesday 20th September 2005 (Cellular-News)
    Camera Phones Will be High-Precision Scanners (Monty Solomon)
    P2P Companies Try to Go Legit (Telecom Daily Lead) 
    Re: Motorola Bag Phone (Steven Lichter)
    Re: Motorola Bag Phone (Bob Vaughan)
    Re: Motorola Bag Phone (Joseph)
    Important Medical Recall Announcement (Patrick Townson)

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From: Michael Rubinkam <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: New Orleans Suspends Re-Opening; Waits for Another Hurricane
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:19:04 -0500


By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer

Under pressure from President Bush and other top federal officials,
the mayor suspended the reopening of large portions of the city Monday
and instead ordered nearly everyone out because of the risk of a new
round of flooding from a tropical storm on the way.

"If we are off, I'd rather err on the side of conservatism to make
sure we have everyone out," Mayor Ray Nagin said.

The announcement came after repeated warnings from top federal officials -- 
and the president himself -- that New Orleans was not safe enough to
reopen.  Among other things, federal officials warned that Tropical
Storm Rita could breach the city's temporarily patched-up levees and
swamp the city all over again. Army Corps of Engineers officials noted
that many of the repairs thus far from Katrina were 'emergency, temporary'
repairs, intended to make things 'hold together safely while workers
then got into the more detailed task of rebuilding them permanently.
"Another storm, such as Rita would collapse the work we have done to
date," noted the officials.

The official death toll from Hurricane Katrina reached 973 across the
Gulf Coast, with the number in Louisiana alone rising by 90 to 736.

The mayor reversed course even as residents began trickling back to
the first neighborhood opened as part of his plan, the less damaged
Algiers section.

Nagin wanted to reopen some of the city's signature neighborhoods over
the coming week to reassure the people of New Orleans that "there was
a city to come back to."

But "now we have conditions that have changed. We have another
hurricane that is approaching us," Nagin said. He warned that the
city's pumping system was not yet running at full capacity and that
the levees were still in a "very weak position."

The mayor ordered residents who circumvented checkpoints and slipped
back into still-closed parts of the city, including the French
Quarter, to leave immediately.

Nagin also urged everyone already settled back into Algiers to be
ready to evacuate as early as Wednesday. The city requested 200 buses
to help if necessary. Nagin noted that "this time, as needed, the
busses will make as many trips as needed; load up, take the evacuees
away to safety, then return a second or third time for another load."

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, in a televised address Monday, also
urged residents of coastal southwest Louisiana to be prepared to
leave. More evacuees would strain the shelters in Texas, she said, so
she urged people to head for central and northern Louisiana instead.

"We will pray that Rita will not devastate Louisiana, but today we do
not know the answer to that question," Blanco said.

Tropical Storm Rita was headed toward the Florida Keys and was
expected to become a hurricane, cross the Gulf of Mexico and reach
Texas or Mexico by the weekend. But forecasters said it could veer
toward Louisiana and New Orleans' weakened levees. Army Corps of
Engineers employees furiously continued their 'temporary, emergency'
repairs throughout the night.

"We're watching Tropical Storm Rita's projected path and, depending on
its strength and how much rain falls, everything could change," said
Col. Duane Gapinski, of the Army Corps of Engineers task force
draining New Orleans and repairing levees.

The dispute over the mayor's plan to quickly reopen New Orleans and
bring back about 180,000 of the city's half-million inhabitants was
just the latest example of the lack of federal-local coordination that
has marked the disaster almost from the start.

Nagin saw a quick reopening as a way to get the storm-battered city
back in the business of luring tourists. But federal officials warned
it would be premature, pointing out much of the area does not yet have
full electricity, drinkable water, 911 service or working hospitals.
The officials warned, "after all, there is basically no phone service
either; how would we round up all the evacuees for a second trip out
of town if it becomes necessary?"

Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen, who heads the federal recovery
effort in the region, went on one news show after another over the
weekend to warn that city services may not be able to handle an influx
of people. "What if it happens again, and this time the hurricane
takes a slightly different course and the twenty percent saved last
time around gets hit this time? We are recommending people just go
away and stay away until _we_ say it is safe."

Allen said repeatedly that he intended to have a frank discussion with
Nagin about his concerns on Monday, but the two didn't meet until
after Nagin held a news conference to announce he was suspending
re-entry to the city, a mayor's spokeswoman said.

Nagin had spent the weekend in Dallas, where he moved his family and
has enrolled his daughter in school, and he missed an appointment with
Allen because his flight home was delayed, she said.

Earlier, a clearly agitated Nagin had snapped that Allen had
apparently made himself "the new crowned federal mayor of New
Orleans."

Allen tried unsuccessfully to reach the mayor by cell phone over the
weekend, a Coast Guard spokesman. President Bush said White House
chief of staff Andrew Card had also been pressing Nagin to pull back
on the plan.

With the approach of Rita, Bush added his own voice to the mix, saying
he had "deep concern" about the possibility that New Orleans' levees
could be breached again.

In addition, Bush said there are significant environmental concerns. New
Orleans still lacks safe drinking water, and there are fears about the
contamination in the remaining floodwaters and the muck left behind in
drained areas of the city.

"The mayor -- you know, he's got this dream about having a city up and
running, and we share that dream," the president said. "But we also
want to be realistic about some of the hurdles and obstacles that we
all confront in repopulating New Orleans."

About 20 percent of the city is still flooded, down from a high of
about 80 percent after Katrina, and the water was expected to be
pumped out by Sept.  30.

But officials with the Army Corps of Engineers said the repairs to the
levees breached by Katrina are not yet strong enough to prevent
flooding in a moderate storm, much less another hurricane. Brig. Gen. 
Robert Crear said Monday they hope to have the levees capable of hand-
ling a Category 3 storm by June, the start of hurricane season. He
said, "right now we are just making things safe enough for our people
to work in the area."

Nagin did not give any specifics about how he plans to enforce the
renewed evacuation order.

In the raucous French Quarter, about a half-mile from where Nagin made
his announcement, businesses were getting up and running, and bars
were serving cold beers to National Guardsmen and passers-by.

Del Juneau, owner of a Bourbon Street lingerie shop, said it would be
premature to order an evacuation based on the storm nearing
Florida. "Where are you going to go? What are you going to do?" he
said. "I'm not going anywhere."

Down the street at the Famous Door, bartender C.B. Dover, said: "If we
have a forced evacuation, we'll go. If it's not forced, we're not
going anywhere." Dover said the mayor "has been overreacting the whole
time. ...  He's reacting emotionally, and you can't do that."

Earlier in the day, as residents began streaming in at the mayor's
invitation, cars were backed for two hours at an Interstate 10
checkpoint into the city. Tractor-trailers, emergency vehicles and
National Guard trucks shared the highway with cars towing trailers
full of hurricane gear and pickup trucks with their beds loaded with
water, cleaning materials and coolers.

It was clear that at least some of the traffic was headed to sections
of the city that had not yet officially opened.

Algiers, a neighborhood of 57,000 just across the Mississippi River
from the French Quarter, is home to many of the companies that make
floats for Mardi Gras parades. Unlike much of the rest of the city, it
saw little damage from Hurricane Katrina three weeks ago and has
electricity and drinkable water.

"Obviously we need to get businesses up and running any way we can,"
said Barry Kern, whose float businesses is stocked to the rafters with
oversized imaginary creatures. "If we don't start somewhere, where do
we start?"

Elsewhere across the city, where the damage was more severe, much of
the sentiment seemed to be with the mayor and his attempts to reopen
the city quickly.

"Send Bush here and we'll make him a po' boy and tell him to leave us
alone," Kathleen Horn said as she cleaned up the debris piled in front
of Slim Goodies Diner on Magazine Street in Uptown.

Ironically, as everyone was chattering about all the 'flood waters'
which had done such damage to New Orleans, a light rain started to
fall over parts of the city.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

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From: James B. Kelleher <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Online Credit Card Fraud Getting Ahead of Ability to Stop it
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:20:59 -0500


By James B. Kelleher

The top security experts at the world's two biggest credit-card
associations said on Monday that the battle against Internet-based
thieves had reached a stalemate and the industry would have to spend
millions of dollars over the next decade just to keep up with the
criminals.

Speaking at an conference here, John Shaughnessy, senior vice
president for fraud prevention at Visa USA and Suzanne Lynch, vice
president for security and risk services at MasterCard International,
said that organized crime rings -- with the help, in many cases, of
former Soviet KGB cryptographers -- were successfully using the
Internet and "crimeware" software programs to circumvent the defenses
credit-card issuers erected against them.

The picture they presented of an escalatinq struggle between commerce
and criminality offered little hope of quick relief for consumers
worried about identity theft or for investors in card-issuing banks
concerned about security's escalating costs.

The credit-card companies were battling loosely knit, elusive criminal
networks responsible for much of the fraud, they said.

"They're very, very good at what they're doing," Shaughnessy told
attendees at the Bank Card Conference, "and they're a few steps ahead
of us in a couple of areas. They've done their homework about the
payments system and because of (them) we all have a chance to lose
some sleep at night."

The sobering assessment came one day after Symantec Corp., the world's
biggest security software maker, released a report that showed hacking
was no longer just the pass-time of precocious teenagers, but now was
the province of organized criminals looking to gain access to personal
information of computer users -- and their assets.

Symantec said that viruses designed to capture confidential
information made up three-quarters of the top 50 viruses, worms and
Trojans during the first six months of 2005, up from 54 percent in the
last six months of 2004.

Visa's Shaughnessy said FBI data showed the number of Internet-related
credit-card crime reports rose 66 percent in 2004 and the average
reported loss associated with the online scams tripled to $2,400 from
$800 in 2003.

Part of that jump reflects the rise of business done on the Internet,
Lynch and Shaughnessy said. But part of it also reflects the
increasing sophistication of the criminals.

"We build a 10-foot wall," Lynch said, "and the bad guys build an
11-foot ladder."

While the criminals are increasingly savvy, Shaughnessy and Lynch said
that in many cases they were inadvertently helped by sloppy security
policies within the payment chain itself -- and by slip-ups by
merchants, third-party processors or the credit-card companies
themselves.

"I will say that of all the hacks we've seen -- and we've seen
hundreds and hundreds of these -- had the third-party been in
compliance (with association rules), they probably wouldn't have been
hacked," he said.

Shaughnessy said Visa and others were looking at ways of protecting
data so that even if a consumer's credit card information was
compromised, it would be useless to the criminal. But he warned it
would take many years, and lots of money, to set up such a system.

"This is going to take big investments over a number of years and
we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars to come up with a secure
system," he said. "Maybe 10 years from now we'll have it solved
 ... It's a tough situation."

Made tougher by the speed with which the criminals exploit even the
most harmless information breaches, Lynch said.

Lynch said that as the Red Cross began issuing MasterCard debit cards
to victims of Hurricane Katrina earlier this month, a newspaper
photographer working on a story about the program took a picture of
one recipient holding a card. The photo was quickly posted on the
Internet web. "Within eight hours," Lynch said, "there was fraud on
the card."

"Somebody had seen the picture -- and unfortunately they hadn't blocked the
number -- and so somebody used the card fraudulently."

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Re-read the last two paragraphs of the
story again. Diner's Club used to have a television commercial which 
included a blown-up, expanded in-close picture of one of their credit
cards, and it was issued to 'John Q. Customer', and that card number
was used many times in mail order fraud back in the 1960's. Also, you 
have probably heard of the Brinks Home Security system, where one's
house is protected by beams of light which cannot be broken by
intruders walking through them (or the alarm goes off, etc.) A
television commercial showed a typical installation, with a control
panel on the wall. When the occupants entered or left a house, they
had to punch in a five digit 'security code' to activate or disarm the
system. The commercial showed the homeowner going to bed for the
evening and punching in the default code number, '12345' to protect
his house and family all night. Although the code number to arm or
disarm the system could (and was expected to be) changed from the
default, factory-set code of '12345' it turns out most people did
not bother to change it from the default (just like many people do not
bother to change/eliminate the default 'users' installed at the
factory for Unix accounts). Then the people got their houses ripped
off when intruders walked in, and used the 20 second grace period to
enter the default code. Later versions of the Brink's commercial (just
like later commercials for credit cards) don't get into quite that
much detail. I understand Red Cross and the FEMA people have gotten
good ripoffs from misuse of their cards, also.   PAT]

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From: Barbara W. Carlson <csm@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Ham Radio Operators Tune in to Hurricane Help
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:28:24 -0500


http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0915/p12s02-stss.html
By Barbara W. Carlson | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

NEWINGTON, CONN. - Richard Webb, an amateur radio operator, was asleep
on his air mattress at University Hospital in New Orleans during the
aftermath of hurricane Katrina when he was awakened at 5 a.m. by a
hospital administrator.

As Mr. Webb tells it, "He told me we had a lady who was in labor, who
had swum five blocks in that dirty, nasty water to the hospital
because she saw lights there - people with flashlights moving around."
Medical personnel said the baby needed to be delivered by caesarean
section. But the hospital had limited power, no running water, no way
to sterilize instruments, no way to perform such surgery. "We figured
we had two hours to get her medevacked out of there" before the lives
of mother and child would be in danger. "So I got on the radio and was
talking to a fellow who was with the Coast Guard auxiliary in
Cleveland, Ohio. I was working with him to arrange a medevac."

Choppers did arrive in time, Webb says. The woman and another patient
in need were evacuated successfully. Because the hospital had no
landing pad, the two had to be lifted out in baskets lowered from the
helicopters.

Webb, who lived in nearby Slidell, La., had been summoned to his
hurricane post by the hospital's head of emergency management. He's
one of about 750 amateur radio operators, or "hams," who have been in
and out of the five hurricane states since day one: Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of northern Florida and Texas, where
evacuees are taking shelter.  At least a thousand other hams
throughout the nation have been involved in some way, relaying
messages or assigning hams to various locations. They're all
volunteers, all unpaid, and they do what they do because they want to.
They train for disaster work; their FCC radio licenses mandate public
service.

In typical disaster conditions, agencies like the Red Cross, Salvation
Army, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), and
local government bodies call on a state ham leader for volunteers when
usual channels of communication are down or jammed.

Katrina was different: It was far more vast. For the first time, the
nonprofit American Radio Relay League (ARRL) set up a website and
database to facilitate assigning hams.

Pamela Taylor, who works as an events manager in Hampton Beach, N.H.,
got a call from FEMA and headed south on Sept. 9. She was deployed to
a shelter in Ocean Springs, Miss., near Gulfport, before moving to New
Orleans. The shelter was a church, well-supplied and maintained, with
an abundance of volunteers. Her job was to radio for special needs,
anything from a doctor to paper plates. Nights sometimes brought an
emergency or two when a resident had to be removed, usually for
alcohol or drug problems.

Hams worked with the National Weather Service before and during the
hurricane. They still are receiving and transmitting messages in
shelters and other locations, alerting emergency agencies that a
community needs water, that an elderly woman needs an ambulance, or
that sanitary conditions are in crisis.

An estimated 600,000 FCC-licensed amateur radio operators live in the
United States; about 162,000 are members of the ARRL, which was
founded in 1904 and is located here in Newington, Conn. Nearby
Hartford is where Hiram Percy Maxim, the father of amateur radio,
experimented at sending messages across the city and then relaying
them across the country. Long before e-mail, there was amateur
radio. It evolved over the last century so that today, ham operators
communicate with one another around the world. Allen Pitts, for
example, the ARRL's media-relations manager, says he has spoken to
fellow hams in 213 foreign countries or "political entities."

That's the hobby part of hamdom. The serious and vital part is seen in
the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES). Trained ham operators are
ready with their "go kits" of equipment, batteries, and energy
bars. ARRL coordinates the work of the emergency operators. Hams were
at ground zero in New York within hours, they were in Florida for the
multiple hurricanes last year, and they handled communications in the
Northeast blackout of 2003.

Hams are volunteers. When they set sail for disasters, they pay their
own way. Sometimes employers give them a paid leave or reimburse
expenses.  Hams' sacrifices are real, but the rewards are often
intangible.

Mark Conklin of Tulsa got time off as a sales manager for an appliance
company to relay messages. At first he handled communications between
the state department of emergency management and the highway patrol.

Next he was assigned to the 1,200 evacuees transplanted to an Oklahoma
National Guard camp. At the camp, he talked to an elderly woman who
was crying because she was happy -- "communications" had been able to
get a pair of glasses for her. "For the first time in a week," she
said, "I can see."

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From: Business News Wire <newswire@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: CallWave and Hawaiian Telcom Join Forces
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:38:30 -0500


CallWave and Hawaiian Telcom Announce Agreement to Offer VoIP Enhanced
Services to Hawaiian Telcom Wireless Customers

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2005 -- Hawaiian Telcom Seizes
Opportunity to Pioneer Landline-Wireless Convergence and Deliver
Desktop VoIP Software to Its Customers

CallWave, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALL), a leading provider of VoIP enhanced
services, and Hawaiian Telcom today announced a groundbreaking
agreement to deliver mobile convergence to mainstream telecom
customers.  Under the terms of the agreement, Hawaiian Telcom will
license CallWave's fixed mobile convergence VoIP software to provide
VoIP-based convergence applications, which include branded desktop
software, to its customers.

Hawaiian Telcom subscribers will soon have the ability to screen live
mobile calls and move these calls between their cell phone and
landline. Hawaiian Telcom will also offer a branded version of
CallWave's proprietary desktop VoIP software, where consumers can
preview calls, listen to voicemail and direct incoming cell phone
calls - all from their internet-connected PC.

In addition to introducing innovative, high-value features to Hawaiian
Telcom subscribers, this agreement has broader significance. Hawaiian
Telcom becomes one of the first carriers to bring the power of a
desktop application to enhance everyday calls on cell phones and
landlines. This move expands the domain of desktop voice applications
beyond peer-to-peer calling to include PC management of, for example,
incoming cellular calls.

By delivering VoIP applications to enhance traditional phone calls,
Hawaiian Telcom is responding to customers' demand for relevant,
real-world solutions to managing their existing stream of calls
through a simple, but powerful desktop application.

"Carriers can now compete with Portals for VoIP applications on the
desktop, and Hawaiian Telecom is a pioneer in this area.  They are
leading the way in leveraging their call volumes and large caller
communities to win the desktop," said David Hofstatter, president and
CEO of CallWave. "There is a narrow window of opportunity for carriers
to surround customers with powerful, carrier-branded desktop VoIP
software that enriches both their wireless and landline offerings."

Through this partnership, Hawaiian Telcom is responding to customer
demand for enhanced features from their wireless telecom provider,
with CallWave's proprietary software seamlessly bridging their
landlines, wireless phones and PCs and providing unique caller
services.

Hawaiian Telcom's wireless customers will gain access to CallWave
enhanced VoIP service features, including:

       -- Call Preview, which allows users to listen to voice messages
in real time and, if they choose, interrupt the message to take the
call.

       -- Call Transfer, which lets users instantly transfer a live
cell phone call to a home or office phone.

       -- Follow Me Home, which allows customers to automatically
receive calls destined for their mobile phone on a designated landline
when their mobile phone is either turned off or out of the coverage
area.

       -- CallWave's desktop software enables customers to preview
calls by hearing messages in real time, and easily manage and move
calls from their home phone to another convenient device, such as
their cell phone. It also serves as a flexible desktop tool, offering
playback, storage and email of voice messages. To enhance privacy,
Hawaiian Telcom's customers can also block telemarketer calls and
monitor landline calls on their mobile phones.

Hawaiian Telcom's service will be called Call Choice(SM) and will be
offered on a monthly subscription basis. A service trial is scheduled
to launch in mid-October 2005, with the full roll-out in the first
quarter of 2006.

"Hawaiian Telcom's goal is to provide innovative, relevant services to
our customers, and we're proud to be the first carrier to offer
CallWave's VoIP platform to deliver on that promise," said Michael
Ruley, CEO of Hawaiian Telcom. "By gaining access to these
'CallWave-powered' features, our subscribers can take advantage of
VoIP's benefits without having to sacrifice the reliability and
convenience of their landline or mobile line."

At a time when the telecom industry is becoming increasingly
competitive, CallWave offers carriers a unique ability to enhance
their existing networks with value-added VoIP applications. Unlike
other VoIP solutions, CallWave's versatile VoIP platform can be easily
and cost-effectively deployed throughout a carrier's entire network
and can rapidly evolve to meet particular market needs.

With CallWave, carriers gain a strategic advantage, as they can
quickly deploy valuable new services and features that can help them
retain and attract customers, differentiate themselves in the
marketplace and stay ahead of mounting competition. Carriers instantly
gain the inbound call management features of desktop-enabled VoIP, and
compete with companies adding voice elements to their desktop
programs.

In a separate announcement today, CallWave unveiled its CallWave
Rewards prepaid cell phone, the first pay-as-you-go program in which
subscribers can earn rewards for getting calls. For more information
or to purchase the CallWave Rewards phone, please visit
http://www.callwavemobile.com.

About Hawaiian Telcom

Hawaiian Telcom is the state's leading telecommunications provider,
offering a wide spectrum of telecommunications products and services,
which include local and long distance service, digital subscriber line
(DSL) broadband for Internet use, wireless services, and print
directory and Internet directory services. For more information,
please visit http://www.hawaiiantel.com.

About CallWave

CallWave (NASDAQ: CALL) is a leader in VoIP enhanced services for the
consumer and business markets. The company provides VoIP application
services on a subscription basis that add features and functionality
to both the landline and wireless telecommunications services used by
mainstream consumers and businesses. CallWave's proprietary VoIP
software allows subscribers to get more out of their existing personal
communications networks -- landline, mobile, and IP -- by adding
desktop call management software and VoIP-based call-handling
features, and by bridging all three networks to help subscribers get
their important calls. Founded in 1998, CallWave is headquartered in
Santa Barbara, Calif. For further information, please visit
http://www.callwavemobile.com.

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From: Lisa Reyes <events@ec-consortium.org>
Subject: ECC Provides VoIP Solutions to Chicago Businesses
Date: TUE, 20 SEP 2005 11:26:13 -0500
Reply-To: lreyes@iec.org


Contact: Lisa Reyes
Phone: +1-312-559-3325
E-Mail: <a href="mailto:lreyes@iec.org">lreyes@iec.org</a>

ECC PRESENTS VoIP SOLUTIONS FOR ENTERPRISE IN SEPTEMBER PDF</b>

The Enterprise Communications Consortium (ECC) offers valuable
solutions to current VoIP technology challenges in September
professional development forum (PDF).

CHICAGO September 20, 2005 The Enterprise Communications Consortium
(ECC) hosts a cutting-edge professional development forum (PDF),
granting business owners solutions to current technology challenges
they face in implementing VoIP, this September 22 at the Hyatt Lodge
at McDonalds' Hamburger University in Oak Brook.

This distinct PDF shares with professionals the latest technological
solutions to help prepare them to successfully and securely integrate
VoIP into their enterprises. Hearing leading experts VoIP deployment
strategies and experiences, business owners will learn how they too
can successfully implement VoIP into their business models.

ECC Director of Content Development Dick Renfro noted VoIP's
importance: "VoIP is the current major driver in the reduction of
enterprise, business, and consumer telephony pricing. Every
organization, regardless of size, should consider use of this radical
new capability to help control operations cost.

The PDF will discuss advancements in technology leading to IP
integration, technological and business elements necessary to take the
next step in VoIP penetration, key concerns in securely integrating
IP, potential solutions surrounding security, interoperability, and
the ability to access global network directories. This PDF will
provide the opportunity for professionals to gain solutions from
industry experts while learning from the experts' most recent
experiences.

Key speakers include top-level executives Chris Stakutis, Chief
Technology Officer, Emerging Storage Software, IBM; Tom Kershaw, Vice
President, VoIP Services, VeriSign; Ajay Nigam, Director,
Communications Security Services, VeriSign; Alan Bavosa, Senior
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Subject: Cellular-News for Tuesday 20th September 2005
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:58:51 -0500
From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news.com>


Cellular-News - http://www.cellular-news.com


  Asia Could Be World's Largest Mobile Market within a Decade
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14113.php

Asia may become the largest regional mobile telecommunications market
in the world over the next five to 10 years, reports In-Stat. In 2004,
there were nearly 740 million mobile users in Asia (including Japan,
Australia,...

  Mobile TV Channels Named for Canadian Operator
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14114.php

Canada's Rogers late last week published the channel line up on the
Rogers Mobile Television platform. Rogers Mobile Television service is
powered by MobiTV. "Rogers has both the largest cable company and the
largest wir...

  Dilithium Order From Vodafone
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14115.php

Dilithium Networks has announced that Vodafone Spain has selected the
DTG 2000 multimedia gateway for delivery of enhanced 3G services
across mobile and IP networks. The system will extend the capabilities
of Vodafone Sp...

  New Study Reveals Consumer Desire to Print Camera Phone Pictures
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14116.php

Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. has released the findings from a camera phone
behavior study completed by NPD Techworld, revealing that 44.6% of
participants said they have taken pictures with their camera phone
that they wished ...

  Small GPS Chip for Mobiles
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14117.php

Fujitsu Media Devices (FMD) and Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME)
have introduced a new compact AGPS/GPS module suitable for mobile
devices. The small size makes it ideal for incorporating within
products such as mob...

  Kenyan Operator Passes Subscriber Milestone
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14118.php

Kenya's Safaricom says that it has attained the three million active
subscriber mark ahead of its forthcoming fifth year birthday next
month. Safaricom chief executive officer Mr. Michael Joseph in a media
release today ...

  Ugandan Operator Upgrades MMS Capability
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14119.php

MTN Uganda has become the first operator in Africa and the second in
the world to go live with Ericsson's latest multimedia messaging (MMS)
technology, the Multimedia Messaging Center (MMC) 4.0 platform....

  Nordics Get BREW Platform
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14120.php

Qualcomm has announced an agreement with Nordisk Mobiltelefon, a
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO wireless service operator focusing on the rural
Nordic market for voice and data services, to deploy BREW products and
services over its C...

  Two-Thirds of European Companies Rolling Out Wireless Email for Workers
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14121.php

Research published by European analyst firm, Quocirca, commissioned by
Intellisync Corp. points to a significant development in the European
business email market. The report underscores concerns that many
European IT de...

  Funding Secured for South African Operator
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14122.php

South Africa's 3rd GSM network operator, Cell C says that it has
secured a three year US$80 million Revolving Credit Facility with
Nedbank Limited, a leading South African bank. As previously described
by Cell C in its H...

  Fixed-Mobile Technologies Level the Telecom Services Marketplace
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14123.php

The dream of using one telephone with one number whether at home, at
work or on the street -- and of networks smart enough to hand over a
call in progress -- is approaching reality. "Fixed-mobile convergence"
is the buzz...

  Mobile Data Services Popular in Austria
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14124.php

The subject of mobile working becomes more and more important for
Austrian small to medium businesses. A report compiled by the GSM
operator, ONE show that 23% of companies employing mobile phones also
use them for mobil...

  Vodafone: 3G Devices Rises To 4.35 Million At Aug 31
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14103.php

Vodafone Group said Monday that it is hosting an analyst and investor
day at its headquarters in Newbury, England and will report that the
number of 3G devices has risen to 4.35 million at Aug. 31, 2005,
comprising 3.95 ...

  Telsim Pre-qualification Bids Extended To Sep 30 -IHA
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14104.php

The Turkish Saving Deposits Insurance Fund said Monday it has extended
the deadline for pre-qualification bids in the sale of seized mobile
phone operator Telsim, Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reported. ...

  easyMobile To Be Launched In Germany
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14105.php

Danish telecommunications operator TDC A/S (TDL) Monday said the
mobile phone company easyMobile, in which it holds a minority share,
will enter the German market in the near future. ...

  Vodafone In Talks To Integrate 3G Data Card Into Laptop
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14106.php

Vodafone Group PLC (VOD), the U.K. mobile telecommunications company,
Monday said it's in talks with computer manufacturers regarding the
integration of third-generation, or 3G, data cards into laptop
computers. ...

  Nokia Launches Nokia 6630 Music Edition Of 3G Smartphone
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14107.php

Finland's Nokia Oyj (NOK) said Monday it has launched the Nokia 6630
Music Edition, a special music version of the third generation
smartphone. ...

  Vodafone Sees 3G Demand Picking Up
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14108.php

LONDON (Dow Jones) -- U.K.-based mobile phone giant Vodafone Group PLC
on Monday said adoption of third-generation devices were gaining
momentum, but Chief Executive Arun Sarin's absence of comments on cash
ret...

  Analyst Sees SanDisk Mystery Product Involving Music
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14109.php

Flash memory product maker SanDisk Corp. (SNDK) aroused suspicion late
last week when it made a cryptic announcement revealing "major" news
to come during the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association
...

  Nortel On Schedule For Manufacturing Operations Transfer To Flextronics
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14110.php

Nortel Networks Corp. (NT) is on schedule for the transfer of its
manufacturing operations and related activities in Calgary and
Campinas, Brazil to Flextronics International Inc. (FLEX). ...

  Sprint Offers Streaming Music Service For Phones
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14111.php

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP)--Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) is becoming the
latest cellphone carrier to let its customers listen to music on the
devices. ...

  UK PRESS: China Mobile: Not In Talks For Reliance Telecom
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14112.php

China Mobile (CHL), the world's largest wireless operator, on Monday
denied it was negotiating to acquire Reliance Telecom, a small
cellular services company controlled by Mumbai entrepreneur Anil
Ambani, the F...

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:35:42 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Camera Phones Will be High-Precision Scanners


NewScientist.com news service
Duncan Graham-Rowe

New software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and
Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone
camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by
sweeping the phone across the page.

Commuters in Japan already anger bookstore owners and newsagents by
using existing cellphone software to try to take snapshots of
newspaper and magazine articles to finish reading on the train to
work.

This is only possible because some phones now offer very rudimentary
optical character recognition (OCR) software which allows small
amounts of text to be captured and digitised from images.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7998

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:09:25 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: P2P Companies Try to Go Legit


USTelecom dailyLead
September 20, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=24747&l=2017006

		TODAY'S HEADLINES
	
NEWS OF THE DAY
* P2P companies try to go legit
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Lenovo's new laptop line includes Verizon broadband system
* Brain behind Cisco's code takes job at startup
* VCs hungry once again for tech
* Survey: VoIP service providers must reconsider marketing approach
* Analysis: What's in it for AOL?
* China Mobile denies rumors of Reliance Telecom deal
* Motorola ramps up telecom services plan
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT 
* FCC Chairman to provide Washington insight at TELECOM  05
* Telecom industry continues to restore service, aid Hurricane Katrina evacuees
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* European airlines to test in-flight mobile phone system
* On deck: Phone search technology
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* WSJ: FCC close to approval of telcos' mergers
* FCC relieves Qwest of some requirements in Omaha area

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=24747&l=2017006

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From: Steven Lichter <shlichter@diespammers.com>
Reply-To: Die@spammers.com
Organization: I Kill Spammers, Inc.  (c) 2005 A Rot in Hell Co.
Subject: Re: Motorola Bag phone
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:06:01 GMT


Steven Lichter wrote:

> I have one of these.  Don't use it at all; it is not digital.

> Pretty good condition, no battery with it, just pugs in to lighter in a 
> car.  It was on BellSouth Mobility, but with you try to use it it says 
> it is not registered with Verizon.

> If someone wants to pay me to pack it up and ship it to them, let me 
> know, I can send pictures if you like.

> The only good spammer is a dead one!!  Have you hunted one down today?
> (c) 2005  I Kill Spammers, Inc.  A Rot in Hell Co.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I certainly have the required power
> supply even though I do not have a car/cigarette lighter.  I wonder
> how it would work on Cingular Wireless here in Kansas?   PAT]

If Cingular has an Analog system it would work just fine, what are the
chances of that?  I know when BLS; BellSouth took over some of GTE
MobleNets Washington systems; they were located in Verizon offices,
they still had the old Motorola Analog switch as well as the Digital
one, but they had planned to move out of the building and have a new
GSM switch.

The only good spammer is a dead one!!  Have you hunted one down today?
(c) 2005  I Kill Spammers, Inc.  A Rot in Hell Co.



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Cingular has some Analog stuff still in
service, but it is getting scarce. They claim they will continue to 
service it through the end of next year, at least. But they also say
that no _new_ analog service will be allowed in area 620 (southeast
Kansas). Any new analog service (in the remaining time for same) will
have to work out of Wichita (area 316), which is okay I guess. My
exisiting Cingular prepaid service (an old AT&T Nokia 5165 phone) goes
out of Wichita also, although my prepaid 'regular' Cingular Wireless
service is a 620 number locally out of Independence.  PAT]

------------------------------

From: techie@tantivy.tantivy.net (Bob Vaughan)
Subject:  Re: Motorola Bag phone
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:49:22 +0000 (UTC)
Organization:  Tantivy Associates


In article <telecom24.427.14@telecom-digest.org>,
Steven Lichter  <Die@spammers.com> wrote:

> I have one of these.  Don't use it at all; it is not digital.

> Pretty good condition, no battery with it, just pugs in to lighter in a 
> car.  It was on BellSouth Mobility, but with you try to use it it says 
> it is not registered with Verizon.

> If someone wants to pay me to pack it up and ship it to them, let me 
> know, I can send pictures if you like.

> The only good spammer is a dead one!!  Have you hunted one down today?
> (c) 2005  I Kill Spammers, Inc.  A Rot in Hell Co.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I certainly have the required power
> supply even though I do not have a car/cigarette lighter.  I wonder
> how it would work on Cingular Wireless here in Kansas?   PAT]

No, It almost certainly will not work with Cingular, which is a 1.9ghz
digital network. You will need to find a carrier that has a 800mhz
AMPS network in place, such as the old Cellular One (now AT&T?), or
Verizon.

The carriers may be reluctant to activate new service on a analog
phone, as they can fit multiple digital calls in the same bandwith as
a single analog call.

There are also security issues, as a analog phone can be easily cloned
using information sniffed off the air, with no physical access to the
donor phone required.  This is/was a major problem in many urban
markets, where folks would park on a overpass over the freeway, and
sniff ESN's from all the cellular users passing by, and then clone the
ESN's into other phones, and sell calling time to the immigrant
community.  No fun when your bill shows up with thousands of dollars
in calls to central america, although the cell companies would
generally absorb the charges, it was a big hassle all around.

The FCC has set a sunset date, after which time the carriers are free
to discontinue analog service. That date is February 18th, 2008.
After that date, there is no guarantee that analog service will
continue to be available, although I suspect that it will continue in
more rural areas for some time.


               -- Welcome My Son, Welcome To The Machine --
Bob Vaughan  | techie @ tantivy.net 		  |
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Actually, the old AT&T Wireless Network
was bought by Cingular, not by Cell One, however, it seemed to be the
policy of AT&T that anytime _they_ were not able to service a customer
the customer was handed off to the nearest Cell One tower. Some of
that may just be playing games with words and names however, since
here in Independence, AT&T (now Cingular) services its customers via
the Cell One 'antenna farm' owned and operated by Dobson Cell Towers,
which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dobson Cell One. Located in
nearby Liberty, Kansas, Dobson Cell Towers rents space to whomever,
such as Cingular Wireless, Cell One, Alltel and US Cellular. 

Cingular has already stated (see my response to the other message in
this group today) they will continue to service analog phones until
'sometime next year' as required by the FCC regulations. However, the
area code I am in (620, southeast Kansas) will _only_ as of now, or
as of last month, actually, be digital service. Until a few years ago,
we used to be in area 316 (same as Wichita) and any _prepaid_ phones
I wish to turn on (until next year's deadline) will be handled out
of Wichita 316, like my present prepaid cellular phone, making me a
'roamer' for service. But 'roamer' is just a word also, all rates for
prepaid service here in Independence, local or roaming, are 25 cents
per minute under prepaid service. The effect of this where I am 
concerned is _all calls_ local or 'long distance' when using the
Cingular prepaid service must commence with me entering my number and
my pin. Not so on my 'regular' cell phone service. They will _not_
cell any analog phones or service as such any longer; just keep up
with what is still out there. I may switch to Cell One or Alltel in
the future if I can get a better deal from them _AND_ port my 
existing number.   PAT] 

------------------------------

From: Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Motorola Bag phone
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:49:58 -0700
Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com


On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:05:59 GMT, Steven Lichter
<shlichter@diespammers.com> wrote:

> I have one of these.  Don't use it at all; it is not digital.

> Pretty good condition, no battery with it, just pugs in to lighter in a 
> car.  It was on BellSouth Mobility, but with you try to use it it says 
> it is not registered with Verizon.

> If someone wants to pay me to pack it up and ship it to them, let me 
> know, I can send pictures if you like.

>The only good spammer is a dead one!!  Have you hunted one down today?
>(c) 2005  I Kill Spammers, Inc.  A Rot in Hell Co.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I certainly have the required power
> supply even though I do not have a car/cigarette lighter.  I wonder
> how it would work on Cingular Wireless here in Kansas?   PAT]

Who knows how it would work on Cingular or even on Verizon.  Neither
company will let you activate an AMPS (analog) only phone any longer.
cingular won't even let you activate new TDMA (IS-136) service since
cingular wants everyone on the GSM network now.  People who are still
on the TDMA network can stay there although Cingular has been taking
more and more resources from their TDMA side and putting them into the
GSM side so reception in some areas has become quite iffy.  If you had
service with AT&T Wireless or Verizon Wireless with just analog
they'll likely let you keep it.  They won't activate anything other
than recent technology and even Verizon won't let you activate any new
phone that is not GPS equipped.  The only way you could possibly use
it is as an emergency phone to dial 911 only since it's mandated that
911 should work from all phones regardless of whether they are
registered on a network.

------------------------------

From: Patrick Townson <ptownson@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Important Medical Recall Announement
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:10:47 -0500


All drugs containing PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE are being recalled.
You may want to try calling the 800 number listed on most
drug boxes and inquire about a REFUND. Please read this
CAREFULLY. Also, please pass this on to everyone you know.

STOP TAKING anything containing this ingredient. It has been
linked to increased hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in brain)
among women ages 18-49 in the three days after starting use
of medication. Problems were not found in men, but the FDA
recommended that everyone (even children) seek alternative
medicine.

The following medications contain Phenylpropanolamine:

Acutrim Diet Gum Appetite Suppressant
Acutrim Plus Dietary Supplements
Acutrim Maximum Strength Appetite Control
Alka-Seltzer Plus Children's Cold Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold! medicine (cherry or orange)
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine Original
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Cough Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Flu Medicine
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Sinus Effervescent
Alka Seltzer Plus Night-Time Cold Medicine
BC Allergy Sinus Cold Powder
BC Sinus Cold Powder
Comtrex Flu Therapy & Fever Relief
Day & Night Contac 12-Hour Cold Capsules
Contac 12 Hour Caplets
Coricidin D Cold, Flu & Sinus
Dexatrim Caffeine Free
Dexatrim Extended Duration
Dexatrim Gelcaps
Dexatrim Vitamin C/Caffeine Free
Dimetapp Cold & Allergy Chewable Tablets
Dimetapp Cold & Cough Liqui-Gels
Dimetapp DM Cold & Cough Elixir
Dimetapp Elixir
Dimetapp 4 Hour Liquid Gels
Dimetapp 4 Hour Tablets
Dimetapp 12 Hour Extentabs Tablets
Naldecon DX Pediatric Drops
Permathene Mega-16
Robitussin CF
Tavist-D 12 Hour Relief of Sinus & Nasal
Congestion
Triaminic DM Cough Relief
Triaminic Expectorant Chest & Head
Triaminic Syrup Cold & Allergy
Triaminic Triaminicol Cold & Cough .....

I just found out and called the 800 number on the container for
Triaminic and they informed me that they are voluntarily recalling the
following medicines because of a certain ingredient that is causing
strokes and seizures in children:

Orange 3D Cold & Allergy Cherry (Pink)
3D Cold & Cough Berry
3D Cough Relief Yellow 3D Expectorant

They are asking you to call them at 800-548-3708 with the lot number
on the box so they can send you postage for you to send it back to
them, and they will also issue you a refund. If you know of anyone
else with small children,

To confirm these findings please take time to check the following:

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/ppa/

This is very important for persons like myself who have a medical
history of heart attacks, strokes and brain aneurysms.

PAT

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