TELECOM Digest     Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:27:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 473

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Massachusetts Dam Holds - But Danger Remains (Ray Henry)
    Real Networks Mulls Buys After Microsoft Settlement (Georgina Prodhan)
    Patent Dispute Threatens Prepaid Wireless Service (Reuters News Wire)
    Feds Want Banks to Strengthen Web Login Procedures (Brian Bergstein)
    Motorola Spearheads WiMax Adoption in Asia Pacific (Monty Solomon)
    Motorola Announces Third Quarter Earnings (Monty Solomon)
    Intel Announces Record Revenue (Monty Solomon)
    Re: Giant Conspiracy or Just Rotten Luck? (Steve Sobol)
    Re: Giant Conspiracy or Just Rotten Luck? (Daryl Gibson)
    Re: Giant Conspiracy or Just Rotten Luck? (Eric Friedebach)
    Re: Giant Conspiracy or Just Rotten Luck? (Thomas A. Horsley)
    TV Show - Legacy Phone-in Scene (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Alamogordo Telephone Office (Lisa Hancock)

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From: Ray Henry <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Massachusetts Dam Holds - But Danger Remains
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:53:33 -0500


Engineers Work to Ease Mass. Dam Pressure
By RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writer

Engineers struggled to ease pressure on a battered 173-year-old wooden
dam Tuesday and prevent a collapse that could send a wall of water
crashing through this town of 50,000.

Crews opened floodgates on the Whittenton Pond Dam, and also adjusted
the flow on a second dam upstream on the rain-swollen Mill River.

The river fell by several inches, but an evacuation order remained in
effect, and schools and highways were closed amid fears a dam break
could send 6 feet of water surging through downtown Taunton, a
working-class community about 40 miles from Boston.

"As the water level decreases, it will be taking a load off the
structure and that's what everyone is looking for," engineer Matthew 
Bellisle said.

Mayor Robert Nunes said officials were worried about excessive
vibration coming from a rotted wooden beam at the base of the dam. He
said nothing was being done to reinforce the structure for fear that
intervening could just cause it to fail.

With the dam buckling under heavy rains, the mayor on Monday ordered
about 2,000 residents who live near the river to evacuate. The
situation worsened after some of dam's timbers washed away, and dive
teams stood by in case rescues proved necessary.

But as the water level dropped in Lake Sabbatia, the body of water
behind the dam, authorities were hopeful disaster could be avoided.

"I've got my fingers crossed that this thing is able to hold," said
Gov.  Mitt Romney, who visited the dam.

Romney ordered emergency inspections of dams across the state.

Late Tuesday, Nunes said the city's schools would be closed again on
Wednesday. Officials planned to decide Wednesday morning whether to
reopen the downtown business district. Emergency utility workers
remained on duty and employees specifically assigned to the dam 
continued to gingerly divert the water in other directions. 

Whittenton Pond Dam is one of about 3,000 private dams in the
state. It was inspected two years ago and was considered in fair
condition at that time, Romney said.

One of the owners, Steve Poelaert, said Tuesday night that work to
restore the dam was to have begun last Friday but was delayed because
of heavy rain.

The 12-foot-high dam dates to 1832 and is near homes and businesses
about a half-mile upstream from downtown Taunton. It was built to
power a textile mill but no longer has any industrial purpose.

Taunton has received 11 1/2 inches of rain this month, including more
than 7 inches from Friday through Sunday. The city last flooded in
1968, when the same dam broke.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

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From: Georgina Prodhan
Subject: RealNetworks Mulls Buys After Microsoft Payout
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:51:04 -0500


By Georgina Prodhan

Internet media software company RealNetworks is mulling more
acquisitions after receiving a $761-million payout from Microsoft
Corp.  to settle an antitrust case, its chief executive said on
Tuesday.

"Our two growth businesses have been music and games so if you could
do acquisitions that accelerate that I wouldn't rule it out," Rob
Glaser told Reuters in an interview on the fringes of a tech
conference in Athens.

"This is a business where are many kinds of opportunities," he said,
declining to elaborate on specifics of any potential acquisition
targets.

Software giant Microsoft agreed a week ago to pay RealNetworks $460
million in cash and to invest $301 million in promoting RealNetworks'
Rhapsody online music subscription service on Microsoft's MSN website.

RealNetworks had sued Microsoft almost two years ago, saying
Microsoft's decision to bundle Windows Media Player for free within
the Windows operating system was an abuse of its market dominance and
had harmed RealNetworks' sales.

Rob Glaser -- a former protege of Microsoft founder Bill Gates before
he left fo start his own company, built his business on the RealPlayer
software for playing video and audio on computers -- a rival to
Microsoft's Media Player.

In response to the Microsoft competition, RealNetworks shifted toward
online music and games, buying PC games firms GameHouse and Mr
Goodliving after acquiring listen.com -- the company that brought it
the Rhapsody service -- in 2003.

Glaser said, however, he was in no rush to buy more companies, despite
the Microsoft cash that he said would boost RealNetworks' cash and
equivalents to above $800 million by the end of the year -- more than
twice last year's sales.

"I'd rather do four acquisitions that work than do eight, six of which
work," he said. "We'd probably look at more opportunities now but I
couldn't predict that the velocity will increase."

He said he was not currently in any talks with Steve Jobs, chief
executive of Apple Computer Inc., which dominates the online music
business with its wildly popular iPod mobile music player and iTunes
software.

"Right now it's a dormant stage in that relationship."

Glaser added he was ready to put aside rivalry with Microsoft to make
the new cooperation, which will also give RealNetworks access to
Windows technologies to enhance the RealPlayer software, work.

"We're sincere about wanting a collaborative relationship with
Microsoft," he said.

Asked whether he could imagine ever returning to Microsoft, Glaser said:
"I think I enjoy working for a company of a size big enough to get
things done but that's still nimble."


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From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Patent Dispute Threatens Prepaid Wireless Service
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:51:47 -0500


A patent dispute over prepaid cellular telephones threatens to disrupt
service to millions of prepaid wireless customers at several U.S.
carriers, including Cingular Wireless.

A federal judge in Boston granted an injunction on Monday against
Boston Communications Group Inc., (Nasdaq:BCGI - news) which sells
customer management services for prepaid wireless telephones to a
number of companies, including Cingular and Alltel Communications Inc.

The court had previously ruled that Boston Communications had
infringed on two patents held by Freedom Wireless Inc., and has
awarded Freedom Wireless $128 million in damages. Last week, the court
added $19.7 million to the award for interest on lost royalties, and
said it would explore further damages.

Under the injunction, wireless companies that use the BCGI prepaid
wireless services must stop selling them. The companies have 90 days
to continue serving current customers, during which they must pay
royalties to Freedom Wireless.

BCGI said that the injunction could affect service to 3.1 million
prepaid customers, including 400,000 at Cingular, representing 70
percent of its total revenue. It has asked the judge to stay the
injunction while it files immediate appeals.

Cingular Wireless spokesman Mark Siegel said the injunction does not
apply to the "vast majority" of Cingular's prepaid wireless customers,
who use a different type of network technology. He said Cingular would
also seek a stay of the injunction while it appealed the case.

"We intend to continue to provide service to all prepaid customers,
including those on the BCG platform," Siegel said. He declined to say
what steps Cingular might take if the injunction is not lifted.

A spokeswoman for BCGI could not immediately say who the other
affected carriers were. The company has sold services in the past to a
variety of carriers, including Alltel Corp. (AT.N) and Nextel, now a
part of Sprint Nextel Corp.

Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless, which Cingular bought last year,
were co-defendants in the suit against BCGI. Verizon Wireless was also
a co-defendant but reached a settlement with Freedom Wireless before
the trial began earlier this year.

Cingular is a joint venture of SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC -
news) and BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS - news)

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From: Brian Bergstein <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Feds Want Banks to Strengthen Web Log-Ons
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:49:34 -0500


By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer

Federal regulators will require banks to strengthen security for
Internet customers through authentication that goes beyond mere user
names and passwords, which have become too easy for criminals to
exploit.

Bank Web sites are expected to adopt some form of "two-factor"
authentication by the end of 2006, regulators with the Federal
Financial Institutions Examination Council said in a letter to banks
last week.

In two-factor authentication, customers must confirm their identities
not only through something they know, like a PIN or password, but also
with something they physically have, like a hardware token with
numeric access codes that change every minute.

Other types of two-factor authentication include costlier hardware
involving biometrics or "smart" cards that would be inserted into
designated readers on a user's computer.

Banks might also issue one-time passwords on scratch-off cards or
require "secret questions" about a customer's account, such as the
amount of the last deposit or mortgage payment.

The council also suggested that banks explore technology that can
estimate a Web user's physical location and compare it to the address
on file.

The most common way of stealing consumers' personal identity data and
financial account credentials online, known as phishing, typically
involves sending e-mails that direct unwitting users to phony Web
sites.  Data harvested at such sites is then used fraudulently.

The Anti-Phishing Working group, an industry association, reported
13,776 unique types of phishing attacks in August.

While some financial institutions have given their customers
electronic password tokens, those have tended to be optional. Other
banks have instituted password entry through mouse clicks instead of
typing, a protection against keystroke-snooping programs.

But in general, the industry can do more to stop account fraud and
identity theft, according to the financial institutions council --
which includes the Federal Reserve; the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp.; the U.S. Comptroller; the Office of Thrift Supervision and the
National Credit Union Administration.

"The agencies consider single-factor authentication, as the only
control mechanism, to be inadequate for high-risk transactions
involving access to customer information or the movement of
information to other parties," the council wrote. "Account fraud and
identity theft are frequently the result of single-factor
 ... authentication exploitation."

FDIC spokesman David Barr said the rules will serve as standards that
will be checked when banks' practices are audited.

Although the requirements apply just to financial services companies,
the policy could stimulate wider use of two-factor authentication by
other merchants that are willing to "federate" their Web sites with
banks, said Michael Aisenberg, director of government relations for
Internet services provider VeriSign Inc.

VeriSign is a member of the Liberty Alliance, a group that is working
to develop standards for federated authentication.

In a federated system, a two-factor login at one site would be
recognized by another, so a travel agency associated with your bank
would automatically grant you access if you came straight from the
financial institution's Web site.

At the very least, Aisenberg said, "The securities industry is going
to have to go along and other regulated sectors will no doubt follow
along as well."

On the Net:
The report:
http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2005/fil10305.html
June report on bank authentication practices:
http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/idtheftstudysupp/index.html

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:58:06 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Motorola Spearheads WiMAX Adoption in Asia Pacific


     Motorola Spearheads WiMAX Adoption in Asia Pacific
     - Oct 18, 2005 11:59 PM (PR Newswire)

Delivering Mobile Broadband Wireless Solutions Through Motorola's
Expertise in IMS Core, Radio Access, Network Services and Devices

SINGAPORE, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT),
a global leader in wireless communications and mobility, announced its
commitment to developing WiMAX in Asia Pacific at the Wireless
Broadband Week 2005 conference held in Singapore October 18-19.

Motorola's commitment to develop WiMAX in Asia Pacific will be backed
by its global drive to provide operators with improved wireless
broadband networks through increased R&D, business alignment and
industry alliances.  Motorola is focusing its efforts on developing
WiMAX 802.16e solutions that provide mobility as well as fixed and
nomadic access.

     - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=52444257

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:58:59 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Motorola Announces Record Third-Quarter Sales and Earnings


     Motorola Announces Record Third-Quarter Sales and Earnings
     - Oct 18, 2005 04:01 PM (PR Newswire)

Third-Quarter 2005 Financial Highlights

     - Sales up 26 percent: Record sales of $9.42 billion, compared to
       third-quarter 2004 sales of $7.50 billion

     - Earnings from continuing operations of $.69 per share, including
       earnings of $.39 per share from significant items discussed below

     - Global mobile device market share up 5.5 percentage points:
       Achieved an estimated global market share of approximately 19
       percent, an increase of approximately 5.5 percentage points
       versus the year-ago quarter and approximately 1 percentage
       point versus the second quarter of 2005

     - Record Mobile Device shipments of 38.7 million units

     - Positive operating cash flow of $1.1 billion

    SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc.
(NYSE:MOT) today reported record sales and earnings from continuing
operations as shown below.

                        Third Quarter               %
                  2005            2004        Increase
    Sales         $9.42B          $7.50B           26%
    EPS           $0.69           $0.18          283%

Third-quarter 2005 earnings from continuing operations include income
of $.39 per share from the items shown below.

Third-Quarter 2005                              EPS Impact

    Gain on Nextel stock and
      related hedge adjustments                       $0.32
    Tax benefits related to the
      repatriation of cash and the
      divestiture of a business                        0.13
    Debt retirement costs                             (0.03)
    Reorganization of businesses                      (0.03)
    Total EPS Impact                                  $0.39

During the quarter, the company continued to strengthen its balance
sheet.  The company generated operating cash flow of $1.1 billion, its
19th consecutive quarter of positive operating cash flow.  In
addition, the company reduced its total debt by $1.0 billion through
repurchases of long-term debt in the market.  Also, the company
purchased $353 million of its outstanding shares pursuant to a
previously announced and ongoing share repurchase program.  The
company ended the quarter with a record net cash(1) position of $8.4
billion.

     - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=52434493


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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:59:39 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Intel Announces Record Revenue of $9.96 Billion; EPS of 32 Cents


Includes Legal Settlement that Lowered EPS by Approximately 2 Cents

Intel Announces Record Revenue of $9.96 Billion; EPS of 32 Cents
Includes Legal Settlement that Lowered EPS by Approximately 2 Cents
     - Oct 18, 2005 04:22 PM (BusinessWire)

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2005--Intel Corporation
today announced record revenue of $9.96 billion for the third quarter,
up 18 percent year-over-year and up 8 percent sequentially.

Third-quarter operating income was $3.1 billion, up 31 percent
year-over-year and up 17 percent sequentially, and includes the impact
of a legal settlement discussed below. Net income was $2 billion, up 5
percent year-over-year and down 2 percent sequentially. Earnings per
share (EPS) were 32 cents, up 7 percent from 30 cents in the third
quarter of 2004 and down 3 percent from 33 cents in the second quarter
of 2005. Third-quarter net income and EPS included the impact of a
legal settlement and tax item discussed below.

     - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=52435428

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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Giant Conspiracy or Just Rotten Luck?
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:21:12 -0700
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com


Gordon S. Hlavenka wrote:

> So, what do I do now?  Obviously I'm going to call Qwest back and
> raise whatfor, but then what?  

Switch.


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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:22:17 -0600
From: Daryl Gibson <daryl.gibson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Giant Conspiracy or Just Rotten Luck?


Gordon S. Hlavenka <nospam@crashelex.com> wrote:

> What I'd like to do (obviously) is get back to paying 50 cents a month
> for practically zero LD usage. What tack should I take with Qwest to
> return to those halcyon days, and if there is no such chance at Qwest,
> who should I replace them with?

You could ask them for a block on International calling. That wouldn't
stop the abuse necessarily, but would stop the calls to Mexico.

Any chance you have a cordless phone? That's the first place I'd look
if I had a bunch of calls turn up on my account. Obviously, you'd
expect to pick up the phone and hear someone using your line, but
unless you've got teenagers, your home phone probably isn't in use
that often.

Daryl

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From: Eric Friedebach <friedebach@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Giant Conspiracy or Just Rotten Luck?
Date: 18 Oct 2005 16:09:51 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Gordon S. Hlavenka wrote:

> Good news and Bad news: The Mexico calls stopped.  But I now have a
> $15.00 "minimum revenue" charge on my bill every month.  The X-Files
> fan in me says Qwest invented the Mexico calls just to get me to
> "touch" my account so their computer could throw in the minimum
> billing charge.

Here's another conspiracy theory, Gordon. Perhaps Qwest would like to
separate you from your unused 800 number.

I've often wondered if an unused 800 number could be taken back by
force or somehow conveniently *assigned* to another customer by
*mistake*. Some time later you find out what happened and telco offers
you an 866 number as a replacement.

Eric Friedebach
/And now it's time for: Jaromir Weather/

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Subject: Re: Giant Conspiracy or Just Rotten Luck?
From: tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley)
Organization: AT&T Worldnet
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:39:42 GMT


I'm reminded of a phone bill I got with a very expensive call to
Hawaii on it. Got all the same run-around about how there couldn't
possibly be any error in the phone bill because the phone company is
perfect -- then I pulled out my secret weapon: The call was made 15
days before my phone service was hooked up, after that, they were
finally willing to believe there might possibly have been a mistake
somewhere :-).

I had another fun time with my bank once: I spent about 6 hours trying
to get my checkbook to balance, and the numbers would never come out
right.  As an act of sheer desperation, I added up the numbers on my
statement and compared them to the total "ending balance" printed at
the bottom, and discovered that the bank's computer apparently could
not do arithmetic (highly confidence inspiring :-). The next month
they finally acknowledged that anyone who made an ATM transaction on
Feb 29th (it was a leap year) had their statement screwed up by a
computer that counted Feb 29th transactions as being in March
sometimes and Feb other times so the total came out different than the
individual transactions. 

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: TV Show - Legacy Phone in Scene
Date: 18 Oct 2005 08:17:42 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


On "7th Heaven" of 10/17/05, a traditional black 500 set rotary phone
was used to help set the scene of a dumpy situation.  The phone was
next to a bottle of liquor.  A person was sleeping and when the phone
rang he pulled the pillow over his head to ignore it.

The ringing sound for the phone was like a Trimline, which has a
single gong ringer (a bit more pleasant sounding than the dual gong
ringer of a regular phone set.)

For many years, on TV the ringer sound for a telephone often did not
match the telephone set shown.  In earlier years a 300 set or separate
bell box ringer would be used for a 500 set.  In later years, a modern
phone with an electronic ringer would still sound like a mechanical
bell and vice versa.

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Alamogordo Telephone Office
Date: 18 Oct 2005 10:23:43 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


TELECOM Digest Editor noted in respose to John McHarry:

> Telco insisted they had easement rights to that box to get to those
> pairs when they needed to do so. The people who had purchased the
> house knew nothing about any answering service switchboard; it had
> been long since removed when they bought the house. All that remained
> there was that 'phone closet' from years earlier. This was in Joliet,
> IL, and the people eventually got tired of Illinois Bell knocking on
> their door at 7 AM on Saturday morning to get access to 'their' pairs,
> so they sued and Bell finally got rid of the box by constructing a new
> terminal outside the house somewhere.  If I could find the story
> somewhere I would re-run it here.  PAT]

As I understand real estate law, such easements for utilities are part
of the general law and not necessarily shown on someone's deed.  There
is nothing to stop the phone, power, or water company from digging up
your front lawn to run or maintain lines, whether you like it or not.

Obviously the need to enter the inside of someone's home is pushing
the envelope (and probably a waste of manpower time as well)

The law is fuzzier when it comes to newer services such as cable and
fiber optic.  They don't have quite the same "common carrier" status
as the old line utility service.  Even established carriers have to
handle things differently for new services.  For example, when Verizon
strung fiber through our area for its FIOS service, they needed
municipal permission and they did not provide it universally.  I
suspect customers of FIOS will see a tiny footnote on their bill
denoting a subsidiary company for the FIOS service.

When our cable company went fiber, they installed very ugly big
junction boxes on well-manicured lawns in expensive neighborhoods.
The residents were outraged over that descrecration plus the new
expense for a rented digital converter to get premium channels*.  I
think the residents had to live with it.  The boxes are indeed big and
ugly, but the residents go too nutsy over their lawns.

The cellphone carriers tried to have it both ways.  They claimed
common carrier status meaning they could plant their towers where they
pleased overwriting municipal zoning codes.  On the other hand, they
claimed to be free market if it served their purposes with rates,
customer service, and public responsibilities.

*I had HBO but dropped it when they added the digital converter
requirement, which was another $5 on top of the HBO premium charge.  I
think technically they didn't need it, but rather went that way to
prevent cable theft.  The cable company wised up eventually and
lowered the digital rental fee.  Customers weren't buying some new
channels, so they just raised everybody's basic package price and
included them.



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You may be correct on easement laws. I
saw something in Chicago a few times I thought was very distasteful
and very uncaring. A homeowner had a couple of large trees on his
property, very beautiful older Oak trees. The Commonwealth Edison 
Company had some electric lines running from some street pole to a
house nearby and the electric lines ran right through some of the
large branches on the trees. (Mostly because over the years as the
trees grew taller, the branches grew out and encompassed the electric
lines.) In the case of one tree, Edison just chopped it down totally,
even though it had been growing there for forty or fifty years. In the
case of the other tree, they decided to 'save it' by climbing up into
it (with one of those lift baskets attached to the utility trucks)
and chopped off two or three or the long branches leaving the tree
standing there sort of lop sided with leaves and branches growing on
one side of it, sawed off stumps on the other side of it high in the
air, leaving it very ugly and grotesque looking. I guess it did not
occur to Edison to simply re-route their electric lines a few feet so
the tree could have lived there peacefully as well. The people who
lived in the house did not like it either, and thought it left the
tree looking very hideous, but Edison insisted they had the right to
do it that way under their easement rules.  Personally, I think
they should have gotten a good suing on account of it.  PAT]

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