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TELECOM Digest Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:09:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 492 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson FCC Delays Vote on Telecoms Mergers Vote (Jeremy Pelofsky) Music Video Audience Migrates to Web (Antony Bruno) Man Accused of Stealing sex.com Web Site Captured, Jailed (AP News Wire) Sprint Nextel to Launch High-Speed Network (Bruce Myerson) Los Angeles Numbering, 1940s (Paul Coxwell) Old Chicago Numbering (Paul Coxwell) Re: Do We Go Overboard for Halloween? (Jim Burks) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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An FCC spokesman declined to comment on the reason for the delay. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin had proposed approving the deals without any conditions. The agency is split with two Republicans and two Democrats so Martin must convince at least one Democrat to support his decision or reach a compromise. One seat on the commission has been vacant since March when then-FCC Chairman Michael Powell stepped down and President George W. Bush has yet to name anyone to fill the position. The lack of a Republican majority for Martin has caused problems before. He was unable to launch a new review of media ownership restrictions because of a disagreement between Republicans and Democrats. One source close to the matter said some of the conditions under consideration include freezing for two years or more the wholesale rates that SBC and Verizon charge competitors for leasing parts of their networks. Other conditions could include forcing Verizon and SBC to offer high-speed Internet service without requiring customers to also sign up for local telephone service and ensuring a subscriber can surf where they choose on the Internet, said the source who declined to be identified. Competing telephone companies have pushed for price controls for wholesale access to Verizon's and SBC's networks. Consumer advocates have urged that the two carriers be forced to offer customers high-speed Internet service without subscribing to local telephone service. Consumer groups have warned that SBC and Verizon's acquisitions of AT&T and MCI, respectively, would doom competition for customers, lead to higher prices and result in poorer service. SBC spokesman Michael Balmoris said "we're confident the FCC recognizes the benefits of our merger with AT&T, and we look forward to a favorable vote." Verizon spokesman David Fish declined to comment. The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division approved the two transactions on Thursday on the condition they each offer long-term leases to competitors for extra lines into some buildings. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: Antony Bruno <reuters@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Music Video Audience Migrates to Web Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:54:08 -0500 By Antony Bruno On November 1, Internet media giant Yahoo will launch two music video services, and both efforts illustrate the Internet's growing dominance among music video media. One will feature the online debut of a different music video each weekday. The videos will be available online at Yahoo exclusively for 24 hours. Most will be world premieres, though some will have simultaneous TV releases. The focus is mainstream acts. Yahoo's other new music video service is StopWatch, which will highlight emerging acts. Each week, it will recommend one of three videos from newer artists based on a user's music-listening history and stated preferences. "The Internet is now leading where the music video business is going," Yahoo head of programming and label relations Jay Frank says. By and large, label executives agree. "If you look at some of the big projects we've done of late," EMI senior VP of strategic marketing Ted Mico says, "they've pretty much all launched online." Even MTV has embraced the Internet. The network launched its Overdrive site to help keep music video fans engaged with the MTV brand. In addition, it recently began offering online streaming of its campus-based mtvU channel in an initiative called mtvU Uber. "We took it very seriously that our audience's experiences around music have shifted to the Internet," says Amy Doyle, senior VP of music and talent programming for MTV. "There's no question it's an amazing platform to showcase music videos." MAKING MORE VIDEOS Label executives equate featured placement of a video on AOL or Yahoo with appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone, in terms of exposure. For instance, Mariah Carey's "Shake It Off" video received 2 million requests in the first 24 hours it was available on Yahoo Music, compared with 500,000 requests on MTV's "TRL." The result: More music videos are being made, and watched, than ever before. The number of videos made in 2004 and 2005 so far outpaces that of the prior three-year period. One reason labels may welcome this development is that videos made with the Internet in mind can be cheaper to produce than those aimed at TV audiences. Videos viewed on PCs, with their smaller screens and lower resolution, do not need high production values. This allows newer artists with little cash to use videos as effectively as superstar acts. "The one amazing thing about the Internet is that it is a great leveler in many ways," Mico says. "If you have a killer idea and can do it cheaply, it can be just as successful as one with a million-dollar budget." More important, the Internet is where the viewers are. About 3 billion music videos were viewed on Yahoo's portal last year, and AOL says it receives 3 million-5 million music video requests per day at AOL Music. Why do fans prefer to watch music videos online, where the visuals are less sophisticated than on TV? Because the Internet lets users choose from an unlimited library of content for on-demand viewing. TV remains a popular medium for discovering videos, but once fans know what they want to see, they tap the Internet to do so. "MTV is clearly not the place to watch music videos anymore," Yankee Group analyst Nitin Gupta says. "On-demand is really a compelling way to enjoy music videos, instead of just having them thrown at you on a couple of music channels." This on-demand advantage is augmented by the ability to track viewing patterns and make customized recommendations, as Yahoo will do with StopWatch. "One signal by one TV channel will unlikely be able to fully entertain a broad audience," Yahoo's Frank notes. "We're serving millions of individual video streams every week, (and) hitting the mark 98% of the time because we know exactly what that person wants. A TV channel will never be able to replicate that." Reuters/Billboard Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. ------------------------------ From: Associated Press News Wire <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Man Accused of Stealing sex.com Web Site Finally Captured, Arrested Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:55:58 -0500 A man accused of stealing a pornographic Web site and making millions of dollars from it was arrested by Mexican authorities. Stephen Michael Cohen, 57, was taken into custody Thursday as he applied for a work permit and was turned over to U.S. authorities, said Tania Tyler, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Marshals Service, which tracks down fugitives. At a hearing Friday in San Diego federal court, Magistrate Judge Leo Papas ordered Cohen transferred to Northern California, where a warrant was issued for his arrest. "It's good that justice is served," said Gary Kremen, 41, who fought Cohen for years over the sex.com Web site. "It actually says something about border cooperation." The lucrative Web site primarily hosts ads for other sex-related sites. Kremen said he spent $4.5 million in legal fees trying to regain control of it. A federal judge in 2000 found that Cohen had hijacked the domain name by forging a letter from Kremen's company. The judge ordered Cohen to return the site and pay Kremen $65 million. Cohen failed to appear in court after the judgment was entered and the judge in 2001 issued an arrest warrant charging him with contempt of court. Since then, he had been living in Tijuana, according to court records. The warrant orders Cohen to remain imprisoned until he returns $25 million that the judge said was illegally transferred out of the country. Through the courts, Kremen obtained several of Cohen's assets in the United States, including a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, a San Diego suburb. Kremen also founded match.com, a dating Web site he has since sold. Cohen has previously served time behind bars. He was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison in 1993 after he was convicted of bankruptcy fraud in San Diego federal court. Information from: The San Diego Union-Tribune, http://www.uniontrib.com Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. For more headlines from Associated Press stories, go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/newstoday.html (and) http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html ------------------------------ From: Bruce Meyerson <ap@telecom-digest.org> Subject: Sprint Nextel to Launch High-Speed Network Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:56:59 -0500 By BRUCE MEYERSON, AP Business Writer Sprint Nextel Corp. is poised for a full-scale launch of its high-speed wireless network, a service that will include the first over-the-air music download store in the United States. The newly merged cell phone company was planning a series of major announcements for Monday morning. In advance of the announcement, Sprint Nextel distributed review units of a new cell phone equipped with EV-DO, the technology with which the company's network is being upgraded to offer speedier Internet connections and other data services. The Samsung handset also featured a menu icon for music that leads to a service named "Sprint Music Store" offering downloads from a wide array of genres for $2.50 per song. The purchase entitles a user to download a copy of the same song to a computer as well. There already are a growing number of phones that can store and play music -- most notably the ROKR handset introduced last month by Motorola Inc. and Apple Computer Inc. for songs downloaded to a computer from Apple's popular iTunes store. But only a few overseas cellular operators have launched services where the music can be delivered directly to a handset over the air. Sprint Nextel and Cingular Wireless have stated numerous times they plan to introduce speedier wireless data capabilities by the end of this year. Both companies have lagged far behind Verizon Wireless in deploying such capabilities for business usage on laptops and multimedia services on high-end phones. It was unclear how many markets would have access to the new Sprint service initially. As a prelude to a full-blown launch, Sprint began turning on its EV-DO service at airports and some downtown business corridors during the summer. At last count, those limited services were available in 127 cities. Cingular, a joint venture between SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp., provides high-speed wireless access across six metropolitan areas using a different technology than Sprint and Verizon, but has said the "UMTS" service will be available in between 15 and 20 markets by year-end. Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC, began rolling out its EV-DO service about one year ago and now offers it across 61 metropolitan areas. Sales of the ROKR have been disappointing so far, but cellular operators remain optimistic that music phones will generate a lucrative new revenue stream. Napster has partnered with wireless equipment maker Ericsson to launch a mobile music service under the Napster brand. Slated to launch in Europe within a year and in the United States eventually, the service would allow users to purchase individual tracks and download them wirelessly. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. More audio broadcast news from AP at: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html (also at) http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/Fednews.html ------------------------------ From: Paul Coxwell <paulcoxwell@tiscali.co.uk> Subject: Los Angeles Numbering, 1940s Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:21:15 +0100 Last night I watched an old 1946 movie set in Los Angeles, specifically Hollywood and out to Malibu (the movie is "The Blue Dahlia" for anyone who wants to look out for it -- Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake). Phone numbers were used several times, which I am assuming were of the 2L-4N format -- They were given as name plus four digits and I believe from previous discussions here that Los Angeles never used 3L-4N numbering. One central office name used was Hillside, another was Michigan. At least one such call within the area was placed via the operator. Does anyone know if either of these exchanges actually existed in Los Angeles at the time? Were there still many manual offices in the city? The Michigan office was used in reference to a local police department, the number given being Michigan 5211. If a Michigan exchange did in fact exist, does anyone know if this was a genuine police number for the area? (If so, could it even still be around today, possibly as 64x-5211?) -Paul ------------------------------ From: Paul Coxwell <paulcoxwell@tiscali.co.uk> Subject: Old Chicago Numbering Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:22:09 +0100 I've been having a discussion with a friend in Chicago about the numbering employed there in the past. Knowing that we have Pat and a few others who are familiar with the history of the city, I'm sure somebody might be able to shed some more light on this. I know from previous comments here that Chicago switched from 3L-4N to 2L-5N somewhere in the late 1940s, but my friend recalls that when he started with Illinois Bell around 1960 there were still phones around showing alternate schemes, either 2L-4N or possibly just name plus 4 digits. At first I wondered if the city had indeed used some sort of 6-digit numbering and these were just older phones which had never had their number plates updated, but upon reflection he reckons they may have been manual offices. So can anyone recall how widespread manual offices still were in Chicago around 1960-ish? A few of his comments: > Could be that the changeover came in with X-bar. The office I worked > in was built in the early fifties with the X-bar as the original > equipment. The old Central Office on Western and North Avenues was > turned into a Plant Department training center and I never saw the kind > of equipment which was in it originally. Might be it was an old manual > office - "Number please." > We still had an office like this when I started with the company as a > mailboy in 1960. One of the offices I deleivered mail to was on Ogden > Avenue just west of Central Park Avenue - the old Lawndale Office - the > new Central Office (#1 X-bar) was built two blocks east of Central Park > on the southwest corner of St. Louis avenue where I delivered mail > also. > So it could be that all those number plates I saw on phones were > remnants of a manual office and not a switched office. Didn't think of > that before we started this but that makes sense to me and would > account for the discrepancies. In fact, I now feel certain that is the > explanation. Also mentioned was the Edgewater office on the north side of Chicago where he worked mid-1960s. From his description is sounds like it was a panel office at that time, or "monkey-on-a-stick" as he says they referred to it! We also got to talking about Strowger SxS switches: > I would imagine local central offices for Illinois Bell might have used > SXS at some point, but, by the time I got to the field in the late > sixties, the only place I ever saw them was in PBXes. They were fun to > work on though - a real challenge sometimes. Pat, I recall you mentioning the Wabash office ("The Wabash Cannonball") being SxS at one time. Which part of the city did that serve, and do you have any idea when it was replaced? All info will be passed on to help reconcile old memories! Thanks, -Paul. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The 'Wabash CannonBall' a/k/a Wabash central office was one of the first, if not the first, central offices in Chicago, dating from the early 1900's; it served part of the downtown business district, which in those days (early 1900's, late 1800's) was a wee bit south of the present 'downtown' area; 'downtown' tended to be more around Harrison/Van Buren Streets (east/west streets) and Wabash Avenue. Chicago, after the Great Fire, tended to build more to the north. The 'numbered' streets as a result are all south, east/west streets north are all 'named' rather than 'numbered'. Wabash was a panel office in the very old days; all I know for sure was that Wabash cut over in one large sweep from (mostly) panel with a bit of SxS tossed in to ESS in 1973 or 74. No wholesale SxS, no crossbar, just straight to ESS. The Wabash central office is physically now (and as far back as I can remember) at 65 East Congress Parkway (corner of Wabash Avenue and Congress). On the far north side of the city, the EDGewater central office (so named because Lake Michigan at one point lapped at its doorstep until the lake was gradually filled in a little [at first with debris from the Great Fire, then later as city planners 'moved things around a little'] and the lake got shoved a few feet east on most of the north side). EDGewater CO consists of several exchanges; the ones I am familiar with are EDGewater (773-334), UPTown (773-878), LOngbeach-1 (773-561), SUnnyside-4 (773-784), and maybe others. Although Edgewater dates back almost to the earliest of times as well, and is in the Uptown neighborhood, for whatever reason it mostly progressed over the years from panel through step by step to crossbar, and when it was 'cut' fairly early on (memory tells me it was 1976-77) one exchange there stood out like a sore thumb. City of Chicago was in the process of getting 911 service going everywhere in the city, except they ran into some hassles with LOngbeach-1. Everyone got 911 service except the subscribers with Longbeach numbers (by then it was 312-561). Phone book said '561 subscribers must continue to dial POlice-5-1313 and FIre-7-1313.' And that went on for a few months until telco was able to successfully bring around Longbeach-1. And we were getting 'zero-plus' dialing about the same time; Longbeach was left out of that for a few months also; _they_ had to dial '0' operator and ask for the long distance numbers they wanted. Longbeach also had _no_ payhones in it; and the 9xxx series of numbers were given to 'regular subscribers' where normally numbers of that type (9xxx) _on other exchanges_ were often as not given over to payphones. A bit of non-telecom history for a few minutes here; the Uptown neighborhood in Chicago _used to be_ -- like most of Chicago -- a very elegant, very rich white neighborhood. If you had an UPTown or EDGwater phone number, you lived somewhere between Ashland Avenue on the west, Lake Michigan on the east, Montrose Avenue on the south and Foster Avenue on the north. (I think those are still the boundaries). This is a neighborhood which, in the 1920-30's had the very elegant Uptown Theatre (3000 plus seats) at Lawrence and Broadway, the Riviera Theatre a few doors south, the Aragon Ballroom, the Edgewater Beach Hotel (_directly_ on the lakefront with its elegant mile-long boardwalk) Edgewater Hospital, Radio station WEBH (as in *E*dgewater *B*each *H*otel) and of course, Uptown Station, the very elegant train stop which served the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Electric Railroad, one of Samuel Insull's properties which was located at Wilson Street and Broadway, in the heart of beautiful Uptown, a shopping district only second in glamor to 63rd Street and Ashland. Its all gone today. Between the first and second wars, a nice neighborhood for Jewish people; the Uptown neighborhood began going sour when the Jews moved out (going more north toward Evanston/Skokie) and poorer white people (known in street parlance as 'white trash' or 'hillbillies' [by and large people from Appalachia] moved in. The hillbillies stayed around through the 1980's -- even a few still today -- but mostly they all ran off in dread and terror when the blacks started moving in around 1980 or so. Now today predominently black (although I remember the hillbilly population of Uptown quite well and in the early days of the hillbilly people, also the gay population which lived there.) Uptown Station is still there, but mostly subdivided into small store fronts with one tiny entrance going direct to the train tracks where CTA has rechristened the whole thing 'Wilson Avenue CTA station', and since the CTA is a notorius slumlord -- they do _not_ maintain their property in any way, shape or form -- only when ordered to do so and fined by building inspectors - the Uptown Station -- what remains of it as a train depot -- is a total dump, and very filthy. Uptown is now a 'dumping ground' by social service agencies looking to house hoardes of mentally ill people, ex-felons, drug addicts, etc. Quite a change from the Uptown I remember even in the 1960's. Very sad. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Jim Burks <jbburks@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Do We Go Overboard for Halloween? Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:23:35 GMT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message news:telecom24.488.6@telecom-digest.org: > I've noticed that Halloween seems to have grown substantially in > importance as a holiday. Years ago it was one night -- kids went > around and collected candy, maybe a few adults had a costume party. I noticed several years ago when I was in the UK over October 31, that they do not go in for it as much as we do in the US. Here's an article on it: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/sns-ap-spooked-by-halloween,0,4294835.story?coll=orl-home-promo Some Europeans Aren't Fans of Halloween By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press Writer October 26, 2005, 4:20 PM EDT VIENNA, Austria -- It's almost Halloween -- and all those ghosts, goblins, tricks and treats are giving Hans Kohler the creeps. So the mayor of Rankweil, a town near the border with Switzerland, has launched a one-man campaign disparaging Halloween as a "bad American habit" and urging families to skip it this year. "It's an American custom that's got nothing to do with our culture," Kohler wrote in letters sent out to households. By midweek, the mayors of eight neighboring villages had thrown their support behind the boycott. So had local police, annoyed with the annual Oct. 31 uptick in vandalism and mischief. Although Halloween has become increasingly popular across Europe -- complete with carved pumpkins, witches on broomsticks, makeshift houses of horror and costumed children rushing door to door for candy -- it's begun to breed a backlash. Critics see it as the epitome of crass, U.S.-style commercialism. Clerics and conservatives contend it clashes with the spirit of traditional Nov. 1 All Saints' Day remembrances. And it's got purists in countries struggling to retain a sense of uniqueness in Europe's ever-enlarging melting pot grimacing like Jack o' Lanterns. Halloween "undermines our cultural identity," complained the Rev. Giordano Frosini, a Roman Catholic theologian who serves as vicar-general in the Diocese of Pistoia near Florence, Italy. Frosini denounced the holiday as a "manifestation of neo-paganism" and an expression of American cultural supremacy. "Pumpkins show their emptiness," he said. To be sure, Halloween is big business in Europe. Germans alone spend nearly $170 million, on Halloween costumes, sweets, decorations and parties. The holiday has become increasingly popular in Romania, home to the Dracula myth, where discotheques throw parties with bat and vampire themes. In Britain, where Halloween celebrations rival those in the United States, it's the most lucrative day of the year for costume and party retailers. "Without Halloween, I don't think we could exist, to be honest," said Pendra Maisuria, owner of Escapade, a London costume shop that rakes in 30 percent of its annual sales in the run-up to Oct. 31. Metropolitan Police, meanwhile, haven't logged any significant increase in crime. But not everyone takes such a carefree approach toward the surge in trick-or-treating -- "giving something sweet or getting something sour," as it's called in German. In Austria, where many families get a government child allowance, "parents who abuse it to buy Halloween plunder for their kids should be forced to pay back the aid," grumbled Othmar Berbig, an Austrian who backs the small but strident boycott movement. In Sweden, even as Halloween's popularity has increased, so have views of the holiday as an "unnecessary, bad American custom," said Bodil Nildin-Wall, an expert at the Language and Folklore Institute in Uppsala. Italy's Papaboys, a group of pope devotees who include some of the young Catholics who cheer wildly at Vatican events, have urged Christians not to take part in what they consider "a party in honor of Satan and hell," and plan to stage prayer vigils nationwide that night. Don't take it all so seriously, counters Gerald Faschingeder, who heads a Roman Catholic youth alliance in Austria. He sees nothing particularly evil about glow-in-the-dark skeletons, plastic fangs, fake blood, rubber tarantulas or latex scars. "It's a chance for girls and boys to disguise themselves and have some fun away from loud and demanding adults," Faschingeder said. "For one evening, at least, kids can feel more powerful than grown-ups." ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications topics. 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