TELECOM Digest     Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:36:00EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 431

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Interpol Uses Technology to Fight Child Porn (Mark Trevelyan)
    Displaced Dolphins Rescued From Open Sea (Valarie Bauman)
    Cellular-News For Wednesday 21st September 2005 (Cellular-News)
    Verizon Ready to Launch TV Service (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Motorola ROKR E1 Review (Monty Solomon)
    Re: Motorola Bag phone (Lisa Hancock)

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From: Mark Trevelyan <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Interpol Uses Technology to Fight Child Porn
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:34:46 -0500


By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent

Interpol will launch a big push to identify child sex victims and
prosecute abusers with the help of special software that can minutely
analyze pornographic images, many from the Internet, and spot vital
background clues.

Hamish McCulloch, a British investigator at Interpol who specializes
in child porn, said police around the world will get access to the
technology via a 3.2 million euro image database to be funded by the
Group of Eight (G8) leading nations.

He said it should lead to a big rise in the number of countries
submitting child porn images to Interpol -- currently fewer than 20 --
and in the number of victims found and rescued.

"Currently investigations tend to focus on trying to seize computers,
forensically examine the hard drive and obtain the evidence to
prosecute for possession or distribution (of child pornography),"
McCulloch told Reuters in an interview.

"The countries who are saying 'let's try to identify the victim' are
limited. And that's really where the push has got to go ... Once you've
identified the victim, you've identified the abuser. The vast majority
are identified through the victims."

Since 2001, the world police organization Interpol has built up a vast
store of hundreds of thousands of pornographic images showing up to
20,000 different children.

It has managed to identify and rescue 346, with the largest numbers
coming from Sweden, the United States and Germany -- a positive
reflection, McCulloch says, on the commitment of police in those
nations.

Until now, countries that want to run checks on new images have had to
send requests to Interpol's headquarters in France to be handled by
two specialist officers.

But with the G8 project, now being put out to commercial tender, the
system will be automated and widened so police anywhere can conduct
their own searches around the clock to check if newly found images
match those already stored.

The specialized software can match not only victims but also crime
scenes, even when the images in question are taken in apparently
anonymous indoor settings.

Analyzing a photo of a young girl discovered on a computer in the
United States, for example, the Interpol team found a match with four
pictures from Belgium, showing a different child in the same room.

The computer made the connection by recognizing the wallpaper and the
distinctive floral pattern on a pillowcase. Police were eventually
able to trace the victims and the abuser.

In another case, McCulloch believes police are now close to arresting
a pedophile in Poland who has posted child porn that was submitted to
Interpol by Sweden and Canada.

The key lead now is a series of photographs showing the man exposing
himself in his car as young children walk past. McCulloch says he is
confident police will track down the scene, and the culprit, from
details glimpsed in the background of the pictures, such as buildings,
graffiti and trees.

While the Internet remains flooded with child pornography -- after
all, about sixty percent of the internet is pornography of one kind
or another, and child pornography is about twenty percent of that,
"With three clicks you can find images of child abuse very easily" --
McCulloch believes the new technology significantly raises the chances
of catching offenders.

"People who believed they were not going to be identified and
prosecuted and go to prison are finding law enforcement are knocking
on their door in every corner of the world, from information that
someone thousands of miles away has found on a PC and forwarded
through Interpol channels."


Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. 

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Do any readers have more precise
figures than this? I guess it could be said that 'the internet is
about sixty percent pornography of one kind or another' and 'child
pornography is about twenty percent of that', and I suppose that would
consitute a 'flood' of it; but what are the actual figures as best
anyone can estimate?  I know it is pretty awful, but I would have to
challenge the figures given.  PAT]

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From: Valarie Bauman <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Displaced Dolphins Rescued From Open Water
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:37:00 -0500


By VALERIE BAUMAN, Associated Press WriterWed Sep 21,10:00 AM ET

Marine biologists have rescued the last four of eight trained dolphins
that were swept to sea by Hurricane Katrina.

Before the hurricane hit the coast on Aug. 29, the dolphins were moved
to a pool at the Marine Life Oceanarium that had withstood the
destruction of Hurricane Camille in 1969. Katrina destroyed that pool
and pulled the mammals out into the Gulf of Mexico.

"Three of the dolphins were born at the facility, and had never been
in the wild, compacting our concern for their well-being," said Moby
Solangi, owner and director for the Marine Life Aquarium.

Biologists located the dolphins on Sept. 10 by performing aerial
surveys.  They were monitored and fed from boats and four were rescued
within days, but the other four had left the area. They were plucked
from the Mississippi Sound on Tuesday. All of the dolphins have been
reunited.

"I think it's been good news for a lot of people who have had a lot of
bad news lately," said Connie Barclay, spokeswoman for the National
Marine Fisheries Service.

The dolphins appeared to have some large lacerations and were as much
as 100 pounds underweight, said marine mammal biologist Jeff Foster,
who led the rescue. They were very confused about their circumstances
and why they could not find their keepers, as well as hungry.

Despite the injuries, the animals are recovering well and will be
quarantined until experts are sure they do not have any communicable
diseases.

"They are doing great," Foster  said. "It's been a confusing thing for
them for  sure, but  after a day  they could  settle down and  feel at
home."

The Marine Life Oceanarium featured the dolphins doing jumps and other
tricks in programs for tourists.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

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Subject: Cellular-News For Wednesday 21st September 2005
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:35:01 -0500
From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news.com>


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

  Nortel Wins Chinese Network Optimization Contract
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14128.php

China Mobile has awarded a one-year network optimization contract to
Nortel for its largest regional operator, Xinjiang Mobile. Under terms
of the agreement, Nortel is providing continuous performance
assessment to help ...


  Econet Pays Early To Secure Botswana Operator
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14129.php

Econet Wireless Group says that it has decided to complete its
Botswanan purchase ahead of schedule. The company has paid Altech
US$87.5 million for its 50% stake in Botswana-incorporated Econet
Wireless Global ahead of ...


  Ericsson Win Nigerian CDMA Contract
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14130.php

Fixed-line operator, Nigerian Telecommunications (Nitel), has awarded
Ericsson a deal worth USD$46 million for the expansion of its
fixed-wireless CDMA 2000 1X network. Under the terms of the contract,
Ericsson will be s...

  Hutchison Prepares for 3 Italy Floatation
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14131.php

Hutchison Whampoa has made the first move towards floating its Italian
3G network onto the Italian stock exchange, having made a formal
application to the Italian regulators for the listing. Hutchison also
confirmed that...

  NEC's Mobile Internet Platform selected by O2
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14132.php

NEC says that it has supplied the Mobile Internet Platform for O2's
forthcoming i-mode service. O2's i-mode operations are scheduled to
start this autumn in the UK and Ireland. "We are pleased with NEC as
the provider of...

  picoChip and ARM Announce Wireless Chipsets
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14133.php

picoChip and ARM have jointly announced that picoChip's next
generation picoArray flexible products for WiMAX and WCDMA
infrastructure will incorporate the ARM926EJ-S processor, to create
the first single-chip, software-...

  How to Keep Roaming Customers
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14134.php

Sensustech, a mobile network quality measurement company, has launched
a Roamer Performance Monitoring (RPM) system to help operators acquire
and retain more visiting roamers. It is a new application for the
Sensustech I...

  Second GSM Operator Launches in Nepal
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14135.php

Spice Nepal, the holder of Nepals second GSM license has finally
launched its network, following several years of delays. SNPL, a
joint-venture involving Indian, Nepalese and Kazakhstan companies has
launched the service...

  Reducing Roaming Fraud
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14136.php

The French wireless telecommunications provider Bouygues Telecom has
selected Fair Isaac's RoamEx roamer data exchanger to enhance inbound
roaming revenue and reduce roaming fraud for their roaming
partners. Through the ...

  Two Airlines to Trial In-Flight Cellphone Use
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14137.php

Two European airlines are to start trials of allowing mobile phone use
on their planes. TAP Portugal and the UK based, bmi are preparing to
trial the service on an Airbus A320 in late 2006 by which time OnAir
expects tha...

  Vodafone Preps for FeliCa Lanch
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14138.php

Vodafone Japan has confirmed that it is scheduled to launch a new
service called "Vodafone live! FeliCa" in early November to coincide
with the sale of the Mobile FeliCa smartcard equipped Vodafone 703SHf
handset by Shar...

  Continued Growth Expected for North American Wireless Industry - report
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14139.php

Wireless services continue to drive results for the North American
telecommunications industry, with wireless companies reporting solid
financial and customer growth performance in the first half of 2005,
as reviewed in ...

  China Mobile Adds 3.643 Million New Subscribers In August
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14125.php

China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. (CHL), the listed arm of China's largest
mobile operator, said Tuesday it added 3.643 million new subscribers
in August, up from 3.581 million additional users in July. ...

  Taiwan VIBO Telecom To Raise NT$5 Billion From Private Placement
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14126.php

VIBO Telecom Inc., Taiwan's newest wireless operator, plans to raise
NT$5 billion through a private placement to existing investors in the
fourth quarter, company President David Wang said Tuesday. ...

  Vodafone Confirms Telsim Pre-Qualification Bid
  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14127.php

Vodafone Group PLC (VOD), the U.K. mobile telecommunications company,
Tuesday confirmed it has lodged a pre-qualification bid for Turkish
mobile telecom company Telsim. ...

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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:52:46 EDT
From: USTelecom DailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Verizon Ready to Launch TV Service


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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:02:49 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Motorola ROKR E1 Review


Review of Motorola's iTunes Phone, the ROKR E1

http://www.MobileBurn.com/review.jsp?Id=1648

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Motorola Bag phone
Date: 21 Sep 2005 07:24:23 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Steven Lichter wrote:

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

As others have mentioned, many carriers will not activate such a phone
as a matter a policy (not technically).  Verizon in my area will not.

The newspaper reported consumers are upset by this because there are
many rural areas where bag phones are still needed for their power due
to great distances from the nearest tower.  Perhaps the cell phone
company people think the whole country looks like New Jersey.  It does
not.

Such a phone might work as a 911 emergency phone or on an expensive
pay-as-you-go basis.  I bought an analog cell phone at a yard sale,
powered it up, and tried to make a call on it.  The system asked me
for a credit card number to make the call.  I believe they would put a
call through but at a considerable charge, more so than commercial
pay-as-you-go cell phones.  I keep in my car glove box just in case.
(I don't always carry my cell phone with me on local trips.)

I would suggest powering up this phone and try making a call on it and
see what happens.  The phone should be able to reach 911 and you could
test that by telling the 911 operator immediately that you're testing
a phone.  If asked for a credit card see if you can find out what it
will cost to complete a call.  In the middle of nowhere in an
emergency a $10 call charge isn't so onerous.

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