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From: [e-mail] (Kronos)
Subject: Re: DSS Satellite System Information
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700
guest)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 21:02:43 GMT


[e-mail] (Bernard A Doehner) writes:

> I have been trying to dig up some technical specs on this system but
> have found nothing. Could someone please show me where I could find
a
> technical description of this system?

Check out the newsgroup rec.video.satellite.dbs as there are many
ongoing discussions about all aspects of the service.

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From: [e-mail] (Shawn Gordhamer)
Subject: Re: Flat Rate Cellular Phone Service
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700
guest)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 20:29:11 GMT


> Does anyone know why somebody hasn't started a flat rate cellular
> phone service?  I seems to me that this kind of business would do
> really well, since the users wouldn't have to pay air time.

Well, cellular companies charge about $20 per hour on air time.  For
unlimited service, they would probably charge BIG BUCKS.  There are
already cellular plans for $200+ that are < 15 hours.

Some places have all-you-can-eat weekends, and some include off-peak
hours in this deal.  For me, $49 buys me 60 "free" minutes, unlimited
weekend use, and $.36 per minute after the free ones.

I think I'll program my computer to dial the weather number for 48
hours
during the weekend, just to get my money worth -- and to tick off US
West
Cellular :).


Shawn Gordhamer   [e-mail]


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Do that, and you will mess it up for
everyone
else when the cellular company does away with it. One of the reasons
Illinois
Bell got rid of their unlimited calling plans for residences was
because
of the growing number of modem (for example) users who frankly, just
really
worked it to the hilt. Some guys were going through twenty *thousand*
message units per month, calling from one side the the metro area to
the
other leaving thier computers online with a BBS for hours at a time,
etc.
It was not just the fault of the modem users that IBT adopted a
measured
system; but modem users sure contributed to the death of 'call pack
unlimited' back in the late 1980's.  Even though they did not bill for
message units under the unlimited plan, they still *counted* them for
statistical and analytical purposes, and in the case of a few IBT
execs
their hair stood on end when they saw the figures.    PAT]

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From: Yves Blondeel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Information Wanted on Intelsat
Date: 20 Dec 1994 19:46:34 GMT
Organization: FUNDP, Namur, Belgium


[e-mail] (SPIEGELEER DIRK) wrote:

> Can somebody give me some information about the current projects
> organized by Intelsat in the Third World, and the results these
> projects realize.

I advise you to contact the Intelsat news office.
They should be able to help you.

Intelsat
Susan Gordon or Sigrid Badinelli
3400 International Drive NW
Washington DC 20008-3098  USA
Tel. [phone]
Fax. [phone]


Yves Blondeel     [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 15:20:44 CST
From: Andrew C. Green <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Routing to the Closest Point


[e-mail] (Travis Russell) writes:

> Pizza Hut is getting more than just call routing. I am told through
> third party sources that they are also getting name, address, and
> calling number info as well. I am not sure whether or not Pizza Hut
is
> getting the information from their own database or from the telco,
but
> I understand that they also get a profile of the customer, listing
> their previous purchases and payment methods.

> I am not sure who is maintaining this database.  Any one out there
> know how this is being accomplished?

Speaking as an honored customer of Domino's Pizza, I can tell you that
_their_ database is local to that store, at least as implemented in
our area. I expect Pizza Hut's setup to be similar. Clever ZIP
Code-oriented gymnastics may be used by Pizza Hut (and Domino's,
elsewhere) to route calls to the closest store, but at that point
Caller ID is used to look up the customer by telephone number in their
PC database, which shows past orders and special instructions (e.g.
"Well Done, Extra Sauce")

This makes for remarkably short telephone time; customer name,
address, special directions, etc. are already listed and don't need to
be entered for repeat calls. This is certainly an advantage for them
when there is only one employee present who's expected to prepare
pizzas and answer phones at the same time. The only difficulties I
encounter are when I call an order in from my car phone, a different
number, and have to remind them to call up our record under the
listing of our home phone.


Andrew C. Green           [phone]
Datalogics, Inc.          Internet: [e-mail]
441 W. Huron
Chicago, IL  60610-3498   FAX: [phone]


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I'll tell you who else is keeping a
database of telephone numbers, addresses, and special instructions
here
in the Chicago north suburban area: American Taxi Association. Its a
consortium of independent owner/operator taxicabs who share a common
radio dispatcher and phone room. When you call them, they are always
so backlogged with orders you get their 'please hold for an agent'
message, and part of the recording says 'be prepared to tell us the
telephone number of your pickup location', although they already get
it via Caller-ID most of the time. They then rate you as a preferred
customer; regular customer making a long/short ride; a cranky
customer;
a customer who stiffed the driver last time; a new customer they have
not serviced before, etc.  PAT]

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From: [e-mail] (Evelyn Albrecht)
Subject: Re: Maryland Does Not Yet go 'Round in Circles
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 22:02:37 GMT


Paul Robinson <[e-mail]> writes:

> Note that we have mandatory 1+ dialing for all calls which are not
> local; even in the same area code, I have to dial 11 digits if the
> number isn't local to me, so we are ready for the increase in area
> codes.  However ...

> From a 301-585 number in Silver Spring, MD, dialing:

> 1-360-555-1212   0-360-555-1212  10288-0-360-555-1212   or
> 10288-1-360-555-1212

But area code 360 isn't supposed to active until Jan. 15, 1995, altho
I read a message yesterday that said it works in some cases already.
Is that maybe why the strange result?


Evelyn Albrecht               Ph:  [phone]
Academic Computing Services   Internet: [e-mail]
Western Washington Univ.      Bellingham, WA  98225-9094

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 16:09:05 CST
From: Andrew C. Green <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Christmas Greetings From AT&T


Jhupf <[e-mail]> writes:

> Now my son is one of those adult children who happened to return to
> our empty nest.  He takes full advantage of his return to the nest
> including the use of MY telephone, he doesn't now have a phone he
can
> call his own, nor for that matter has he ever been a customer of any
> phone company.

and TELECOM Digest Editor notes:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Try reading the fine print on the
back
> side of the check Ray Drake sent your son. I think it says you agree
> to have AT&T as your carrier. Sorry, you lose,

Uh, time out here. Jhupf is telling us that the kid does not have a
phone (i.e. an account) in his name. Nevertheless, it looks as if AT&T
matched the kid's mailing address to Jhupf's phone number, and honored
his "request" to change the number, even though he wasn't the billed
party for that number. That doesn't sound right.


Andrew C. Green           [phone]
Datalogics, Inc.          Internet: [e-mail]
441 W. Huron
Chicago, IL  60610-3498   FAX: [phone]

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From: Yves Blondeel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Cable Industry WWW Sites?
Date: 20 Dec 1994 20:30:02 GMT
Organization: FUNDP, Namur, Belgium


[e-mail] (MSHIMAZU) wrote:

> Could you post that site in this group, please?

http://www.cablelabs.com


Yves Blondeel    [e-mail]

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From: Clarence Dold <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Help Converting V&H Coordinates to Longitude and Latitude
Date: 20 Dec 1994 21:02:17 GMT
Organization: a2i network


BelCore sells the V&H to Long/Lat routines, as executables for the
IBM-PC, as well as source (but it doesn't say what language), for
$250.

The V&H tables themselves, along with other valuable info, is on a
CDROM, for $700.

I'm not sure if you have to be a carrier to buy this stuff.
 Bellcore Traffic Routing Administration
 [phone]


Clarence A Dold - [e-mail]
                - Pope Valley & Napa CA.

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From: [e-mail] (Muni Perzov)
Subject: Re: Needed: BRI Test Equipment Leads
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700
guest)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 21:08:55 GMT


TTC in Germantown, MD makes the FIREBERD 6000 analyzer. It has a
plug-in BRI interface for the S/T reference point that generates
2^15-1 (and a lot of other) PRBS patterns.

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From: [e-mail] (SomeBody)
Subject: Head Hunters in Telecommunications field
Date: 20 Dec 1994 12:05:24 -0800


Does anybody know of head hunters in the field of Telecommunications
Please e-mail me their phone or address.

My e-mail address is [e-mail].

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