TELECOM Digest     Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:16:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 520

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Negotiators Change Internet Governance Text (Associated Press News Wire)
    Duping Migrants via Internet (Reuters News Wire)
    China to be in Top 5 Internet by 2010 (Godwin Chellam)
    Snail Postage Increases Two Cents on January 8, 2006 (Associated Press)
    Severe Crack Down on Piracy Announced by Music Industry (Patrick Lannin)
    Old Movie Phone References (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com)
    Telstra Announces IP 3-G Roadmap (USTA Daily Lead)
    Cellular-News for Tuesday 15th November 2005 (Cellular-News)
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From: Associated Press News Wire <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Negotiators Change Internet Governance Text
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:45:49 -0600


Negotiators seeking to avert a U.S.-EU showdown at this week's
U.N. summit on the information society watered down language on the
Internet's governance in talks Tuesday.

U.S. officials considered the vague language a signal that world
leaders would ultimately agree to leaving the U.S. Commerce Department
ultimately in charge of the Internet's addressing system.

"We're waiting until they pass something we can accept," said
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Michael Gallagher.

Diplomats are eager to reach agreement before Wednesday's start of the
World Summit on the Information Society, which is scheduled to last
through Friday.

The summit was originally conceived to address the digital divide --
the gap between information haves and have-nots -- by raising both
consciousness and funds for projects.

Instead, it has centered largely around Internet governance: oversight
of the main computers that control traffic on the Internet by acting
as its master directories so Web browsers and e-mail programs can find
other computers.

That job is handled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers, or ICANN, a powerful group that ultimately answers to the
U.S. government.

Since the latest round of talks began Sunday, the specific wording of
the summit's draft declaration has evolved from "international
management of the Internet," written by Pakistan, to far less specific
language.

"We're two-thirds of our way to a good compromise," EU spokesman
Martin Selmayr said.

The EU has been mediating between the United States and a group of
countries including China and Iran that have sought to replace ICANN
with a multi-country group under U.N. auspices.

Washington set a course for confrontation when it declared in June
that it will retain such oversight indefinitely, despite what many
countries thought was a longstanding policy to one day completely turn
the function over to ICANN as a new, independent technical agency of the
United Nations.

The EU responded in September by insisting that some sort of new
combination of governments and the private sector share the responsibility
of policing the Internet. EU is asking for a 'neutral management of
the internet'.  

Already, rights watchdogs say, both Tunisian and foreign reporters on
hand for the summit have been harassed and beaten. Reporters Without
Borders says its secretary-general, Robert Menard, has been banned
from attending at the insistence of ICANN and the United States.

Civil groups also accused the government Tuesday of blocking access
within Tunisia to a Web site devoted to a citizens' summit held in
conjunction with the main U.N. event.


On the Net:

http://www.itu.int/wsis

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From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Duping Migrant Workers via the Internet
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:36:31 -0600


Would-be migrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America are being
tricked into paying up to $1,000 for promises of travel to a rich
country by Web sites claiming links to the United Nations, a
spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

Fraudsters and phishers infiltrated chat rooms, special interest
groups and even dating sites to entice men and women by claiming to
belong to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) or
other organizations, UNHCR spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis told
journalists.

"Unsuspecting victims are encouraged to apply to these sham
resettlement programs by paying an administrative fee which ranges
from $100 up to $1,000," she said.

The UNHCR never charges for assistance to refugees requiring
international protection and people should understand that all such
offers of help were false, Pagonis said.

The scams first come to light at the beginning of the year and the
Geneva-based UNHCR was working with governments to try to close down
any fraudulent Internet sites detected, she said.

She had no information on how many sites had been closed or on how
much money might have been lost so far.

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From: Godwin Chellam <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: China to be in Top Five Market by 2010
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:42:42 -0600


By Godwin Chellam

Microsoft Corp.'s Internet unit, MSN, expects China to become one of
its top five markets by 2010, fueled by growing demand for its popular
email and search engine software, executives said.

Chris Dobson, general manager of digital marketing sales at MSN
International, told Reuters the software giant intended to ride that
growth while taking a larger share of the country's nascent but
booming $500 million (287.9 million pound) online advertising market.

The world's second-largest Internet market -- 100 million Web users and
counting -- does not even rank among MSN's 10 biggest markets now,
executives told Reuters late on Monday.

"We're starting from very modest beginnings in the Chinese market, but
if we look five years out and if we haven't graduated China to be in
the top five of the world's market, then we would have failed," Dobson
said in an interview in Shanghai, where he was attending an
advertising forum.

In May, the software giant launched MSN China, a Chinese-language
portal with content provided by local partners.

The portal is run by Shanghai MSN Network Communications Ltd., a joint
venture Microsoft established with Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd.

Microsoft has said the portal will offer far more communication, information
and content than available through the MSN services, such as Hotmail and
Messenger, it already runs in China.

Dobson said Messenger, an instant messaging platform, was especially
popular. The service now had 10 million users versus about 7 million
when it was launched six months ago.

Major foreign players such as Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and
Google Inc. have already opened Chinese sites and established
positions in the market through a string of acquisitions.

SEARCH, ADS AND CENSORSHIP

MSN executives said they were particularly encouraged by the growth of
the online advertising market in China, where state media said
revenues hit 1.9 billion yuan last year and are expected to almost
double this year.

"Display advertisements, for example, have been growing 50 percent
annually and we expect this trend to continue," said Chuan Luo,
general manager of MSN's Chinese venture.

But competition on search engines, fought over by Yahoo, Google and
local rivals such as Baidu.com Inc, Sohu.com and Sina Corp., remains a
big challenge.

Dobson said MSN would leverage on the popularity of Hotmail, which had
more than 200 million users worldwide, to draw users to its portal.

"We were probably late into search as a company but we've been late
before and it doesn't necessarily mean we'll be late at the end. It's
a long game, it's a big market, there's room for more than one
player," he said.

The software giant has long seen China as a key growth market, but
also a headache because of widespread software piracy and copyright
issues.

Censorship has also been a major problem for many Internet players,
who voluntarily block searches and other links to sensitive subjects
like the Falun Gong religious movement and the 1989 crackdown on
pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.

MSN was drawn into controversy earlier this year when it censored
words such as "freedom," "democracy" and "human rights" on its free
online journals, but Dobson said the portal was only acting in
accordance with local laws.

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From: Associated Press News Wire <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Snail Postage Goes up to 39 Cents on January 8, 2006
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:30:03 -0600


The cost of mailing a letter will increase to 39 cents on Jan. 8.

The Postal Service's board of governors approved the two-cent increase
in first-class postal rates late Monday. It is the first increase
since June 2002.

The cost of mailing a postcard will increase a penny, to 24 cents, as
part of the roughly 5.4 percent, across-the-board hike in most rates
and fees.

The increase fulfills a requirement, passed by Congress in 2003, that
the Postal Service establish a $3.1 billion escrow account. Congress
is to determine later how to spend that money. The Postal Service said
without the mandate it would not have had to raise rates next year.

The Postal Service has more than $69 billion in annual revenue.

Other rate changes include:

 _First-class letter, one ounce, up 2 cents to 39 cents.

 _First-class letter, two ounces, up 3 cents to 63 cents.

 _Post card up 1 cent to 24 cents.

 _Priority Mail, one pound, up 20 cents to $4.05.

 _Express Mail, 8 ounces, up 75 cents to $14.40.

 _Express Mail, 2 pounds, up 95 cents to $18.80.

 _Certified mail up 10 cents to $2.40.

 _Delivery confirmation (priority) up 5 cents to 50 cents.

 _Delivery confirmation (first-class parcels) up 5 cents to 60 cents.

 _Return receipt (original signature) up 10 cents to $1.85.

 _Return receipt (electronic) up 5 cents to $1.35.

 _Money orders up 5 cents to 95 cents.

On the Net:

U.S. Postal Service: http://www.usps.com

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From: Patrick Lannin <reuters@telecom-digest.org>  
Subject: Severe Crack Down on Piracy by Music Industry 
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:33:50 -0600


By Patrick Lannin

The music industry's top lobby group said on Tuesday it was launching
new legal action against the sharing of files over the Internet, which
it blames for hitting sales.

The International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has
announced it is launching 2,100 new lawsuits and extending the action
to five new countries in Europe, Asia and, for the first time, South
America.

It said file-sharers in Sweden, Switzerland, Argentina, Hong Kong and
Singapore and United States will be prosecuted 'for good this time'.

"It's the thinking of dinosaurs for anyone to believe that they can
steal music after all the education and campaigns that we have had,"
IFPI head John Kennedy told Reuters.

The group said it was taking further action against people who put
music out on the Internet, uploading, via peer-to-peer software, which
allows others to download the files.

The group said actions, which are either civil complaints or criminal
prosecutions, launched on Tuesday or brought recently took the total
number of legal cases against uploaders to more than 3,800 in 16
nations outside the United States.

The legal action is part of a carrot-and-stick approach in the
industry, which is promoting digital music services such as iTunes and
Napster while prosecuting illegal file sharers.

Sales of digital music tripled in the first half of 2005, representing
6 percent of the market, or about $790 million.

IFPI said actions so far had led to mostly young men between the ages
of 20 and 30 paying fines of $3,000 or more. IFPI said "expect larger
fines and more guys getting sued in the next few months."

The cases being launched in Sweden, Argentina, Switzerland, Hong Kong
and Singapore joined Austria, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Britain and the
United States, it said.

IFPI said that in Argentina four out of 10 Internet users had
unauthorised p2p services. In Singapore, the recording industry has
filed 33 criminal complaints involving users of networks FastTrack and
Gnutella, it said.

In Hong Kong, civil actions are being brought against 22 uploaders. In
November, a man who uploaded three films on to the BitTorrent network
was sentenced to three months jail, it said, adding that "many in the
United States will wind up in jail also."

In Sweden, it said the music industry was announcing 15 criminal
complaints against music uploaders with more waves to follow. It said
research showed that more than 1 million people in the Nordic country
are file-sharing illegally.


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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Old Movie Phone References
Date: 15 Nov 2005 10:07:07 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Saw bits of two old movies on TCM channel.  (Both seemed pretty bad
and I didn't watch them for long).  Had some old phones in them.

The first, "Bell Boy" with Jerry Lewis, showed a modern hotel c 1960.
The front desk and service desks had multiple 500 key sets complete
with a thick cord out the back.  There were also "space saver*" phones
mounted on the counter top.  However, when the phone rang the light
didn't go on.  (In the movie "The Apartment", in one scene the keyset
lights definitely were on which alerted the character a call was going
on and she listened to it.)

The second, "Susan Slept Here" (was really bad) had a fancy apartment
(c 1954) and the resident had a two-tone 300 set -- baby blue and
black.  Two-tone was big for cars back then and the Bell System pushed
it as well for telephones.  I thought the phone looked ugly.  The
character called a friend who answered on a black non-Bell set (didn't
seem to be an AE set either), this kind of thing was common in movies.
When someone made a call, the scene changed before all digits were
dialed.

*Space Saver phones were small and basically it was a little box
holding the hookswitch clamped to a wall or top and the dial mounted
on top of the box.  Since the phone was mostly sticking in the air it
didn't take up much of a footprint.  Network and ringer had to be
separate.  A 1950s Natl Geo Bell System ad promoted "Dad" getting an
extension phone in his workshop and the phone illustrated was a space
saver ("Mom" was to get a color phone).  AE had a similar looking
model.  They used to be fairly common on workbenches, labs,
countertops, etc.  Would anyone know if they were an extra charge
item?

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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:58:11 EST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Telstra Announces IP, 3G Roadmap


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Subject: Cellular-News for Tuesday 15th November 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 07:43:09 -0600
From: Cellular-News <dailydigest@cellular-news-mail.com>


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

[[3G News]]

Optus Launches 3G Network
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14820.php

Australia's Optus has launched its 3G services in Sydney, Canberra,
Melbourne, Brisbane's CBD and Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth
airports. Optus will launch its 3G service with four simple capped
plans and five subsidised handsets....

HSDPA PC Card Platform Offering Soft-Upgrade to 7.2Mbps
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14823.php

Icera has announced availability of its first Adaptive Wireless HSDPA
Datacard Platform, which is enabling cellular datacard vendors to be
first to market with next generation 3GPP Release 5 multimode HSDPA
products. The platform supports Adaptive Wi...

[[Financial News]]

Australia's Telstra Declines Comment On CSL
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14809.php

Australia's Telstra Corp. declined to comment Monday on a report it
plans to merge its Hong Kong-based mobile business, CSL, with New
World Mobile Holdings Ltd. ...

O2 Signs Off On Strong 1st Half With Over 25 Million Users
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14810.php

O2 PLC, the U.K. mobile telecommunications company, Monday signed off
as an independent company with a strong set of interim results which
showed double-digit growth in its customer base to more than 25
million users. ...

Turkey, Oger Telecom Sign Agreement On Turk Telekom
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14813.php

Saudi Arabia's Oger Telecom said Monday it and the Turkish government
have signed the shareholder agreement relating to the purchase of 55%
of Turkish telecommunications operator Turk Telekom. ...

Telefonica To Up Stake In China Netcom To 9.9% - Source
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14815.php

Telefonica has signed an agreement that will allow it to raise its
stake in the Chinese telecommunications operator China Netcom Group
Corp. to 9.9% from 5%, a person close to the matter said Monday. ...

Russian mobile handset retailer Euroset denies 'minimizing' taxes 
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14816.php

Russia's largest mobile handset retailer Euroset has officially denied
that "it used various schemes to 'minimize' tax payments and that it
used fly-by-night companies in its activities," Euroset said in a
press release dated November 11, citing th...

Ukraine's Astelit sees 2005-2007 investments at $1 bln
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14817.php

Ukraine's mobile operator Astelit plans to invest U.S. $1 billion in
its network development by the end of 2007, the company said in a
press release dated November 11, citing CEO Ahmet Tanyu. ...

Cosmote Lifts 2005 EBITDA Margin Forecast To Above 40%
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14819.php

Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications SA (COSMO.AT) Monday revised upwards
its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, or
EBITDA, margin for calendar year 2005 to above 40%, from around
40%. ...


[[Handsets News]]

Three New Phones from Sony Ericsson
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14827.php

Sony Ericsson is launching three new handsets, aimed at the low-cost
end of the market. Each handset has its own appeal and is firmly
focused on making voice and text communications as easy as possible
with the use of features such as one click navig...

[[Legal News]]

EU Opens In-depth Probe Into T-Mobile Buy Of Tele.Ring
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14818.php

The European Commission Monday launched an in-depth investigation into
T-Mobile Austria's plan to buy rival Tele.Ring Service GmbH. ...

[[Mobile Content News]]

Vodafone In Universal Music Strategic Deal
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14811.php

Vodafone Group said Monday that it has signed a strategic alliance
with Universal Music Group (UMG to deliver content and entertainment
innovation to Vodafone live! customers. ...

Opera Upgrades Mobile Web Browser
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14824.php

Opera Software has released the latest version of its Opera Mobile
browser for Symbian Series 60 (S60) handsets. Opera 8.5 for S60 comes
with a new password manager for automatic log-in to sites. For the
first time, the browser also features Opera's ...

[[Network Contracts News]]

Movistar Launches GSM Push-To-Talk Service In Argentina
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14814.php

Cellular provider Movistar has launched a new push-to-talk service in
Argentina using its GSM network, becoming the second wireless operator
in the country to enter the market. ...

[[Statistics News]]

GrameenPhone Passes Subscriber Landmark
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14821.php

Bangladesh's GrameenPhone says that it has recently crossed the 5
million subscriber-mark milestone. The company more than doubled its
subscriber-base during the first 10 months of the current year. GP
started the year with nearly 2.4 million subscri...

Decline In US Telecoms Online Experience - report
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14828.php

The Customer Respect Group has released findings from its Fourth
Quarter 2005 Online Customer Respect Study of Telecommunications
firms. By interviewing a representative sample of the adult Internet
population, and by analyzing and categorizing more ...

Mobiles Overtake Landlines in Egypt - Nokia Top Handset Vendor
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14829.php

The research firm, BIS Shrapnel says that for the first time, total
cellular subscribers at the third quarter of 2005 exceeded the
fixed-line subscriber base, despite the relatively strong uptake of
fixed line subscription in Egypt. By the end of Sep...

[[Technology News]]

Linux Mobile Phone Standards Forum Established 
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14812.php

A consortium of telecommunications and technology companies Monday
established a trade body dedicated to driving the adoption of the
Linux operating system in Mobile phones. ...

Orange Offers Multimedia SIM Cards
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14822.php

Gemplus and Orange have jointly announced the world's first commercial
launch of multimedia SIMs for Orange customers. The commercial launch
is set for November 2005 and is based on a SAGEM handset. Other Asian
handset manufacturers are planning to f...

Fixed Mobile Deployed on CDMA Network
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14825.php

Outsmart, a provider of Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions and
Intelligent Networks (IN) based solutions, has announced a successful
deployment of SmartFMC on an unnamed CDMA network. SmartFMC enables
communication service providers to deliver ...

Radcom Deploys GPRS and CDMA Monitoring Platform
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/14826.php

Radcom says that Rural Cellular Corporation (RCC), which does business
as Unicel, has selected its cellular service monitoring and
troubleshooting system. The Cellular Performer systems will help
RCC/Unicel support delivery of 2.5 and 3G services to ...

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Subject: Imagine All Your Information in One Convenient Place
From: info@mijavanetwork.com
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:48:59 CST


	... all in one place.
	
	http://www.all.com

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From: rajendd@gmail.com
Subject: New Mobile Phone forum
Date: 15 Nov 2005 04:20:52 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Hello Guys,

This is an awsome place, its nice to be here.

Thanks,

Rajen

http://www.mobileuserforum.info

PS: I run this generic mobile site called
http://www.mobileuserforum.info, we are looking for moderators, please
get in touch with me if any one of you is interested.

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