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TELECOM Digest     Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:47:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 469

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Biggest WiFi Cloud is in Rural Oregon (Rukmini Callimachi)
    In China, Internet Creates New Wave of Pop Stars (Doug Young)
    What's up With OneSuite ? (Reed)
    Telephone Chat Line Software (danarz@gmail.com)
    Re: A Message to Soldiers: Hold on Please (George Berger)
    Re: Recorded Weather Forecast for New York City? (Wesrock@aol.com)
    Re: Recorded Weather Forecast for New York City? (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com)
    Re: Switchboards in Homes; Closing at Night (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com)
    Re: Dropping SBC For a VOIP Solution; Packet8 (Michael B.)

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From: Rukmini Callimachi <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Biggest Wi-Fi Cloud is in Rural Oregon
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:45:57 -0500


By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press Writer

Parked alongside his onion fields, Bob Hale can prop open a laptop and
read his e-mail or, with just a keystroke, check the moisture of his
crops.

As the jack rabbits run by, he can watch CNN online, play a video game
or turn his irrigation sprinklers on and off, all from the air
conditioned comfort of his truck.

While cities around the country are battling over plans to offer free
or cheap Internet access, often-times fighting with telephone
companies trying furiously to get them forbidden, this lonely terrain
is served by what is billed as the world's largest hotspot, a wireless
cloud that stretches over 700 square miles of landscape so dry and
desolate it could have been lifted from a cowboy tune.

Similar wireless projects have been stymied in major metropolitan
areas by telephone and cable TV companies, which have poured money
into legislative bills aimed at discouraging such competition. In
Philadelphia, for instance, plans to blanket the entire city with
Wi-Fi fueled a battle in the Pennsylvania legislature with Verizon
Communications Inc., leading to a law that limits the ability of every
other municipality in the state to do the same.

But here among the thistle, large providers such as local phone
company Qwest Communications International Inc. see little profit
potential. So wireless entrepreneur Fred Ziari drew no resistance for
his proposed wireless network, enabling him to quickly build the $5
million cloud at his own expense.

While his service is free to the general public, Ziari is recovering
the investment through contracts with more than 30 city and county
agencies, as well as big farms such as Hale's, whose onion empire
supplies over two-thirds of the red onions used by the Subway sandwich
chain. Morrow County, for instance, pays $180,000 a year for Ziari's
service.

Each client, he said, pays not only for yearly access to the cloud but
also for specialized applications such as a program that allows local
officials to check parking meters remotely.

"Internet service is only a small part of it. The same wireless system
is used for surveillance, for intelligent traffic system, for
intelligent transportation, for telemedicine and for distance
education," said Ziari, who immigrated to the United States from the
tiny Iranian town of Shahi on the Caspian Sea.

It's revolutionizing the way business is conducted in this former
frontier town.

"Outside the cloud, I can't even get DSL," said Hale. "When I'm inside
it, I can take a picture of one of my onions, plug it into my laptop
and send it to the Subway guys in San Diego and say, 'Here's a picture
of my crop.'"

Even as the number of Wi-Fi hotspots continues to mushroom, with
72,140 now registered globally, only a handful of cities have managed
to blanket their entire urban core with wireless Internet access.

Hundreds of cities from San Francisco to Philadelphia have announced
plans to throw a wireless tarp over their communities, and a few
smaller ones such as Chaska, Minn., have succeeded. But only Ziari
appears to have pinned down such a large area.

The wireless network uses both short-range Wi-Fi signals and a version
of a related, longer-range technology known as WiMax. While Wi-Fi and
WiMax antennas typically connect with the Internet over a physical
cable, the transmitters in this network act as wireless relay points,
passing the signal along through a technique known as "meshing."

Ziara's company built the towers to match the topography. They are as
close as a quarter-of-a-mile apart inside towns like Hermiston, and as
far apart as several miles in the high-desert wilderness.

Asked why other municipalities have had a harder time succeeding, he
replies: "Politics. The telephone companies, especially SBC, are
making it very time consuming and difficult for most towns." 

"If we get a go-ahead, we can do a fairly good-sized city in a month
or two," said Ziari. "The problem is getting the go-ahead."

"The 'Who's-going-to-get-a-piece-of-the action?' has been a big part
of the obstacles," said Karen Hanley, senior marketing director of the
Austin, Texas-based Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry group.

No major players were vying for the action here, making the area's
remoteness -- which in the past slowed technological progress -- the key 
to its advance.

Morrow County, which borders Hermiston and spans 2,000 square miles,
still doesn't have a single traffic light. It only has 11,000 people,
a number that does not justify a large telecom player making a big
investment, said Casey Beard, the director of emergency management for
the county.

Beard was looking for a wireless provider two years ago when Ziari came
knocking. The county first considered his proposal at the end of 2002
and by mid-2003, part of the cloud was up.

The high desert around Hermiston also happens to be the home of one of
the nation's largest stockpiles of Cold War-era chemical weapons. Under
federal guidelines, local government officials were required to devise
an emergency evacuation plan for the accidental release of nerve and
mustard agents.

Now, emergency responders in the three counties surrounding the
Umatilla Chemical Depot are equipped with laptop computers that are
Wi-Fi ready.  These laptops are set up to detail the size and
direction of a potential chemical leak, enabling responders to direct
evacuees from the field.  Traffic lights and billboards posting
evacuation messages can also be controlled remotely over the wireless
network.

"We had to find a way to transmit huge amounts of data -- pictures, plume
charts ... All that data is very complex and it's hard over radio to
relay to someone wearing chemical protective gear," said Beard.

And for the Hermiston Police Department, having squad cars equipped
with a wireless laptop means officers can work less overtime by being
able to file their crime reports from the field.

While the network was initially set up for the benefit of city and
county officials, it's the area's businesses that stand to gain the
most, say industry experts.

For the Columbia River Port of Umatilla, one of the largest grain
ports in the nation, the wireless network is being used to set up a
high-tech security perimeter that will scan bar codes on incoming
cargo.

"It has opened our eyes and minds to possibilities. Now that we're not
tied to offices and wires and poles, now what can we do?" said Kim
Puzey, port director.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. 

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From: Doug Young <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: In China, Internet Creates New Wave of Pop Stars
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:45:44 -0500


By Doug Young

Yang Chengang was a music teacher by day and lounge singer by night in
central China's Hubei province when one day three years ago a friend
suggested putting one of his songs on the Internet.

Fast forward to 2005, when Yang and his song, "Mice Love Rice," have
become two of the hottest refrains on China's music scene -- all
without the help of a slick marketing campaign, national concert tour
or even a proper album release.

"At first, the Internet posting didn't have much effect," said the
26-year-old Yang, whose debut, self-titled album won't even hit music
stores until November.

"But then last year, a DJ made a disco version of it. It was the
original song, but with a faster rhythm. He put it on the Web, but
people started playing it in discos as well."

The phenomenon that propelled Yang to fame has gone on to lift a
growing number of others to similar stardom, all helped by China's 100
million-strong Internet user base that is now the world's second
largest and a growing crop of young companies trying to cash in on the
trend.

"Mice Love Rice" has been downloaded from the Internet around 100
million times, according to Yang -- a fact that led more than 20
record companies to approach him about signing a contract.

Even Vivendi's Universal Music, the world's biggest record label, has
gotten in on the act, signing a recent contract with Internet singer
Dao Lang, said Harry Hui, Universal Music's president of Southeast
Asia.

Since signing Dao, Universal has released an album of his previously
recorded tracks, and is preparing a new CD as well.

"We have been tracking this pretty closely," Hui said. "The Internet
is becoming a very good promotional platform that did not exist before
for finding new talent. I don't see it as a threat, but as a
complement to our business."

Similar phenomena are happening in other markets, as exemplified
earlier this year when the song "Crazy Frog Axel F," based on a
cellphone ring tone mimicking the sound of motorcycle engines, became
a major hit in Britain.

But the trend of using the Internet as a promotional tool is
especially suited to China, where traditional broadcast media
typically used to promote new music are tightly controlled and less
available to promoters, said Hui.

The market's lack of big labels with fat promotional budgets is also a
factor behind the trend, said Scarlett Li, chief financial officer of
R2G, a content management company.

She estimated that at least three or four of the top 10 songs on
China's music charts at any one time have come from Internet artists
over the last year.

"There is a music community in China online," she said, citing chat
rooms, peer-to-peer download sites and music portals as parts of the
broader Chinese online music community.

"These are spots where young people go to find and exchange music,"
she said. "Some of the Internet singers just throw their music into
these different pools and hope something comes out."

A number of the major western labels, including Universal, Warner
Music and EMI Group have operations in China, which was the world's
19th largest by value in 2003 but was No. 7 in terms of units sold,
according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
(IFPI).

But despite the market's huge potential, all the major labels have
been reluctant to make significant investments there due to piracy
rates that some estimate to be as high as 90 percent.

Enter the Internet, where a growing crop of entrepreneurial Web site
operators have seized on the medium and started signing exclusive
deals with online singers.

Site operators then post the songs on the Internet, collecting a fee
each time one is downloaded and paying a cut of the proceeds to the
artist.

One such service, operated by Hong Kong-listed Tom Online, charges
about 2 yuan per song downloaded, and gives 40 percent of proceeds to
the artist while retaining the rest, said chief executive Wang Leilei.

"We sign contracts personally with singers and repackage their
Internet songs and promote them via our music channel," he said. "We
believe we'll get good results for the effort."

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.

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From: Reed <reedh@rmi.net>
Organization: None Whatsoever
Subject: What's up With OneSuite ?
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:28:08 GMT


Apparently their system has been down since at least Thursday
night. Got a brief recording then, called Cust Serv, they said "try
again in 1 hour". I did not try again til Friday night, new recording
saying "system down for maint., send an e-mail for more info and will
respond in 15 min." Same today and no e-mail response either. Call to
Cust Serv now gets endless MOH.

Anybody know their story ?? Really bad failure, or gone out of biz ??

--reed

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From: danarz@gmail.com
Subject: Telephone Chat Line Software
Date: 16 Oct 2005 03:31:17 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


This is a silly question.

1. What kind of software/hardware is used for those
phone-chat/party-lines?

2. How would I go about setting up a server that can work as an online
answering service?

I posted these questions here since I am not sure which user group
would be appropriate for this kind of question.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You came to the right place ... there
is no such thing as a 'silly question', just a question that someone
needs an answer for.  What you want for the first question is known as
a 'phone bridge'. It is specifically designed equipment used to
properly handle telephone conference calls. Someone who may be able to
give you more advice on these devices is a fellow who has been and and
off this group for many years. John Higdon may be able to tell you how
to build or buy such a device, and he may know something about your
second question as well. Sorry, I have not chatted with John in a few
years now, and do not have any valid email address for him.  Last I
heard he was in the San Jose/San Francisco area. I am sure you could
Google and find him.  Good luck with your search! PAT]
 
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From: George Berger <gberger@his.com>
Subject: Re: A Message to Soldiers: Hold on Please
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:32:31 -0400
Organization: Heller Information Services


In article <telecom24.468.15@telecom-digest.org>, Vincent M. Mallozzi
<nytimes@telecom-digest.org> wrote:

> Good article about the "operators" who help the soldiers get calls
> through.

Vincent -

Thank you for that post. In WWII, the civilians and military family
members in the vicinity of Ft. Hamilton filled a similar role.
Different, but similar in the compassion they had for the soldiers
getting onto troop ships bound for Europe, and for the ones returning.

I'll never forget one of my soldiers telling me of the warmth and
goodness of an elderly woman who wished him well. She had lost her
husband in WWI, but she still had the will, courage and sheer gumption
to hug him and tell him to "Be good, and to come home."

George  (The Old Fud)


I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but
I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.  --
Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)

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From: Wesrock@aol.com
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:35:26 EDT
Subject: Re: Recorded Weather Forecast for New York City?


In a message dated Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:51:50 +0100, Paul Coxwell
paulcoxwell@tiscali.co.uk writes:

> Try (212) 976-2828.   You need to listen through the lotto results 
> before getting to the weather forecast though!

> I remember in the early 1980s NYC was using 936-1212 for weather and
> 936-1616 for time.  I can't remember when they changed to 976 numbers,
> possibly late 1980s?

> When WE6 was still in use there was also the "Big Apple Report" on
> 999-1111.  Was 999 a general exchange serving part of NYC at that
> time, or was that a special prefix?

> WE6-1212 will still get you the weather forecast for Boston (617),
> Milwaukee (414), and Washington D.C. (202).

> -Paul

In Oklahoma City, the weather used to be provided by the Weather
Bureau/National Weather Service.  The time number was sponsored (had
an advertising message you had to listen to before getting the time).
The Audiovox machine used to sit on the main banking floor of the
First National Bank and Trust Company, a grand art-deco space, with a
handset you could pick up to listen directly and lights showing what
lines were in use by incoming calls.

Later, with the growth in volume, the number 3-0561, later Regent
6-0561, overloaded too often, and the machine was placed in a telco
C.O. and a bus was extended to each office with the time announcement
on it continuously.  The prefix 599 was reserved for this service, and
when that prefix was dialed it connected to the bus in the office
where the call originated.  (The listed number was 599-1234.)

With the prohibition on Bell companies providing customer equipment
and information services, this all had to be ripped out and the
machine placed in some customers' premises.

This also caused a proliferation of such services with different
sponsors, many of them adding the weather forecast along with their
message and the time.  There are probably six or eight now available
in Oklahoma City, not counting those with sponsors in suburbs that are
also local calls.

Probably this same progression has taken place in all flat-rate
cities, which are most of the country, since there is no revenue for
the telco in message rate charges.


Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com
wleathus@yahoo.com



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: According to Illinois Bell, the Chicago
area telco on the way out the door (to Ameritech) at the time of
divestiture, those devices (along with 'Enterphone' [the apartment
building front door security system] and a couple other oddball
services) were 'grandfathered'; those who had them could continue to
keep them and use them through the auspices of the telephone company;
any new installations had to come from elsewhere. I know I had only a
year or so prior to that gotten rid of my recorded message newsline on
which a couple dozen telco-style 'intercept machines' were wired in
series through a couple dozen telephone lines in rotary hunt. The company   
I sold the service to when I got out of the business later told me
they had been approached by Ameritech in 1982-83 or thereabouts and
told Ameritech had set up a small subsidiary company mainly just to
handle the several dozen 'odd' customers they had in circumstances
like that and 'keep it legal' where divestiture was concerned. I think
Ameritech put their alarm company in that category also.  PAT]

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Recorded Weather Forecast for New York City?
Date: 15 Oct 2005 19:19:48 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


John Levine wrote:

> They should work fine if you're calling from the NYC area.  The
> 212-976 and 914-976 prefixes are pay per call, so long distance
> carriers won't connect to them.  The last time I called (a long time
> ago) the charge was a quarter.

I'm pretty sure I called in from outside the NYC area via long
distance and got through, despite being 976.  Perhaps my LD carrier
won't do it.  However, I note that the AAA book no longer lists the
number though it did before.

> As far as the weather is concerned, here in upstate NY we've had a lot
> of rain but nothing too bad.  There are swampy areas that flood, and
> they're flooded.  It's not a big deal except, I suppose, that many of
> the swampy areas are close to where NYC news people live.

The www.1010wins.com newsradio site reported a number of road closures
in the area I wanted to visit.  As the day went on, the closures
increased (trees were falling down).  As of Friday night, traffic was
very bad (worse than normal) where I was headed.

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Switchboards in Homes; Closing at Night
Date: 15 Oct 2005 19:49:48 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


hay ... @alumni.uark.edu (Jim Haynes) wrote

> Every manual switchboard I've seen, from PBX to central office, has an
> audible alarm that the operator can turn on or off.  When turned on it

Sounds when there is an incoming call that needs attention.  It also
lights a signal lamp on the board.  This circuit is always called a
"night alarm".

The typical manual switchboard "audible alarm" was a buzzer.  Bell
System PBX buzzers tended to make a rapid clicking sound rather than a
buzzer, that sound was a bit more pleasant.

In service, busy switchboards kept the buzzer off and operators
watched for signal lights, both on the jackface as well as supervisory
signals from cordpairs.  In light service, where operators would be
doing other tasks, the buzzer was kept on.

The "night alarm", if present, was a separate loud bell, intended to
someone from a distance or wake someone up.

Cord PBXs had "night connections".  When the switchboard was shut down
for the down, connections would be made with outside trunks and
designated extensions to receive calls.  Modern (1960) cordless dial
PBXs had a more sophisticated system: after hours a separate bell (old
style wall mounted bell boxes) would sound.  Anyone who wanted to
answer would dial a special code and would get connected to the
incoming outside call.

In the Moutain Bell history, "Muttering Machines to Laser Beams", they
describe in detail life with a home switchboard.  The telephone
company inspected the home very carefully, down to how clothing was
arranged to bureau drawers.  My impression was that service WAS
available 24/7, late at night the alarm would wake the operator up.
In the small communities there would normally be very little night
traffic, but people would need to call the doctor or report a fire.
During WW II, a long distance call from a hometown serviceman might
come in.

In my own town, the local switchboard serving a few hundred lines, had
two positions with a full time operator and a part time assistant.
(The assistant was in high school at the time and still lives in town,
and kindly shared her experiences with me*.)  Anyway, the switchboard
was in a private home; my point being even a busy two position board
could be in a house.

During ESS trials, the lab men considered "taking over" the switch
late at night which meant taking the exchange out of service.  A few
minutes before the shutdown an emergency call for a doctor came
through.  They realized how critical telephone service is, even at 3am
in a small town.

*In 1954 the town went dial.  The young woman was transferred to a
nearby city to work a dial toll & assistance board.  The city board
was a totally different experience than the small town board, the city
board was very structured while the small town was informal (like
"Sarah" in Mayberry).  The operator did keep track of where the doctor
and policeman were in case of emergency.  The small town board did NOT
handle long distance, all toll calls were forwarded to the next town
where a toll operator handled it.

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From: Michael <mbw4359@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Dropping SBC For a VoIP Solution -- Vonage or Packet8
Date: 16 Oct 2005 15:24:07 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Some of the items that were said about the Packet8 TA are not correct.
You can set the IP address of it if you're not using DHCP. The BPA410 can
be logged into and changed via a browser (but I don't know if that is
the case with the other TAs). The one thing I'll say about Packet8 is
they have great tech support. I have a special configuration at home
and I orginally had Vonage and it never worked right because of my
special configuration but I could never get through to their tech
support never , never, never, never, never , never, never, never did I
mention I never , never, never, never could get through to their tech
support!!

My advice is if you have a simple configuration one PC and cable/dsl
modem Vonage will work if and only it plugs and plays the first time or
if you're good at figuring stuff out. if you have an SMC router thats
over 2 years old stay away from Vonage or go buy a Netgear, Belkin etc.

I'm having  several problems with Packet8 as well though I hate the
Caller ID it should be renamed to Caller Number (you don't get the
name) and I can't use my 2 line phone (hey, that worked with Vonage)
and call waiting isn't working (the one down side to Packet8 tech
support is they don't work on Sundays.)


Michael B.

Packet8 is cheaper and has better tech support but their features
AREN'T as slick as Vonage. Packet8 is promising 7 digit dialing come
11/05 we'll see!

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