---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <1o3pkuhfvezr8$.v70op47svn4e.dlg@40tude.net> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:32:03 -0500 From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> Subject: Re: Busy Redial feature discontinued? On 8 Mar 2017 18:48:04 -0000, John Levine wrote: > When's the last time you got a busy signal? Calling to confirm my most recent dentist's appointment; the pay-by-phone line at my gas company; the fax machine at my doctor's office ... > ... These days everyone has voice mail. ... full (or absent) voicemail boxes revert to busy signals. HTH. YMMV. Cheers, -- tlvp --- Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP. ***** Moderator's Note ***** Lines without call waiting (like mine) give busy signals, and even lines with call-waiting will return a busy indication if a third call attempt is made while the second is still in progress. Oh, and I don't have an answering machine or voice-mail. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <EAAFAC32-CC57-4D87-A91D-ADC55F994CF1@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 22:49:16 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: After escaping net neutrality probe, Verizon expands data cap exemptions After escaping net neutrality probe, Verizon expands data cap exemptions With net neutrality worries gone, FiOS TV goes "data-free" on Verizon Wireless. By Jon Brodkin Just a few weeks after escaping a net neutrality investigation into data cap exemptions, Verizon has decided to let its FiOS mobile video stream on its wireless network without counting against data caps. Customers who have Verizon FiOS TV at home and a Verizon Wireless smartphone plan can watch TV outside their homes without using up the data allotments on limited mobile plans, the company announced today. Just two months ago, the Federal Communications Commission accused Verizon Wireless of violating net neutrality rules by letting its Go90 video service stream without counting against customers' data caps as the company charged other video providers for the same data cap exemptions (also known as "zero-rating"). But the FCC's new Republican leadership rescinded that claim and ended the investigation last month, giving carriers the green light to expand data cap exemptions. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/verizon-exempts-fios-tv-streams-from-mobile-data-caps/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <be75a8ae-5528-48ed-9fc2-e8d661b8f790@googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:04:21 -0800 (PST) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: FCC grants emergency "unblocking" of CNID to Jewish Centers On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 12:53:26 AM UTC-5, danny burstein wrote: > Indeed, that "1157" ("*57") code only applies to the > most recent incoming call, which could easily be a half > dozen calls earlier. Years ago I worked the switchboard at a large Y. There wasn't all that much traffic, perhaps an incoming call every five minutes or so. Certainly not that many that one call would be overridden by another. Plenty of smaller enterprises, and most residences, do not have that much incoming phone traffic where a subsequent call would override the first one. Also, some large businesses still have traditional Centrex where each line is the line. > An added complication is that in many office systems the person who > just received the threat, and then remembers to punch in that code, > could easily (and very likely) be getting a dial tone from a > different trunk line than the one the threat came in on. While certainly in many larger office systems that would be the case, but there remains many smaller systems and legacy service where it is not the case. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <06F3777D-CC13-49DC-B225-979F18AECEDA@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 22:52:26 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Google's reCAPTCHA turns "invisible," will separate bots from people without challenges Google's reCAPTCHA turns "invisible," will separate bots from people without challenges Google says it can separate man from machine without any tricky tests or checkboxes. By Ron Amadeo Google's reCAPTCHA is the leading CAPTCHA service (that's "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") on the Web. You've probably seen CAPTCHAs a million times on sign-up pages across the Web; to separate humans from spam bots, a challenge will pop up asking you to decipher a picture of words or numbers, pick out objects in a grid of pictures, or just click a checkbox. Now, though, you're going to be seeing CAPTCHAs less and less, not because Google is getting rid of them but because Google is making them invisible. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/03/googles-recaptcha-announces-invisible-background-captchas/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <4ba6407f-1168-4e23-869c-9b3a9a0b6fbc@googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:00:16 -0800 (PST) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Busy Redial feature discontinued? On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 12:53:26 AM UTC-5, John Levine wrote: > When's the last time you got a busy signal? These days everyone has voice mail. Many individual homes still do not have call waiting. Some people do not like it. Lots of people still use answering machines, not voice mail. Some small businesses do not have call waiting or voice mail. For instance, a busy pizza place or restaurant would issue simply a busy signal if its lines were full since no one could take a call. ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 13 Mar 2017