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TELECOM Digest     Mon, 24 Apr 95 21:14:30 CDT    Volume 15 : Issue 209

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Do You Really Want the World in Your Living Room? (Rishab Aiyer
Ghosh)
    CO/Boston Goes to AT&T Autoplex (Doug Reuben)
    ATT System 25 Music on Hold Help Please (Michael Cummings)
    Book Review: "51 Reasons" by Stone-Martin/Breeden (Rob Slade)
    FTC Report on LD Competition (Michael Ward)
    Florida AC Splits (Paul Knupke)
    1-900-555-1212 (Jeff Smyth)
    Top Ten Excuses For Getting Your Own T-1 Connection (Peter M. Weiss)
    FCC Proposes Changes in Cellular 911 Service (Edupage via Michael
Kuras)
    NYNEX Voluntarily Agrees to Competition (Jonathan Welch)
    Why SNMP? or Why Not? (Suresh Kalkunte)
    Need Help With Wiring RJ-11 Telephone Jack (Robert Swan)
    Voice Pagers; Where Are They? ([e-mail])
    Is There a Telecom Glossary On-Line Somewhere? (Nicol C. So)
    MCI Response to Oklahoma City Residents (Van R. Hutchinson)
    On Choosing a Long Distance Carrier (Van R. Hutchinson)

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Weekly column for The Asian Age by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
#44, 16/January/1995: Do you really want the world in your living room?

Off the wires, we are used to two basic modes of inter- personal
communication - face-to-face, and writing, in order of decreasing
directness. One provides less sensory input than the other, but allows
more time for measured, intelligent and therefore useful responses.
Electronic discussion in the form of e-mail or even real-time textual
chat is unusual in that it provides both a sense of immediacy as well
as the space required to organize one's thoughts. However, telecom
giants are hoping that consumers of the future will simply cart their
real-world conversation paradigms into cyberspace, making
videoconferencing the rage. This is unlikely in the long run - even
novice users of the Net discover the power of pure text early on.

Physical proximity during a conversation encourages awareness of
subliminal messages, through body language, inflexions of the voice
and the physical context of immediate surroundings. It also distracts
one's attention with a flood of details, sometimes useful but often
irrelevant to the purpose of communication. Face-to-face interaction
is very good at putting people at ease - they feel reassured that they
are talking to someone who is really listening, and they get to know
what other participants are "all about."

E-mail, when best used, gets to the point. It does not carry any
subliminal stream of unintended communication that is beyond one's
control; instead, it encourages focussed, well thought out and
relevant content. Of course those who have nothing to say also use
e-mail, and the lack of content in their messages is more apparent,
more quickly, than in face-to-face communication.

Supporters of videoconferencing believe in virtual reality. As
customers didn't consider talking to disembodied faces very appealing,
we've progressed to torsos, sofas, embalmed-Pentium paperweights and
even the odd potted plant. The idea is to create a sense of physical
proximity, carrying people into each other's virtual living rooms.
Unlike real living-room meetings, the barrier of distance and the
camera lens (headset, datagloves, whatever) haunts any VR conference,
so any closeness is clearly artificial. So you end up with the
disadvantages of too much immediacy, of forced "spur-of- the-moment"
responses, without most of the advantages of facing real people.

Face-to-face communication and attempts to replicate it over fibre
make the basic assumption of definite identity: all participants in a
conversation are real human beings using their true names, rather than
intelligent agents, pseudonyms or dogs. This is almost certain not to
be the case, as concerns over privacy mount - a hypothetical
Infosphere Secret Police could, from traffic in public forums, compile
dossiers to shame the Stasi. One could imagine pseudonymized
videoconferencing, with ski-masks digitally painted over faces, but
unless you enjoy being subject to constant voice-stress (or
tilt-of-head) analysis, you'll stick to text.

Of course, realistic videoconferencing will have a niche market. Even
though Granny, in the famous example, can't hold her newborn grandson
over a video-phone any more than over a VCR playing a home video, she
can see him gurgle in real time. High-flying directors of multinational
corporations might like to hold board meetings while cruising off
Nauru - but the truly foresighted are already realizing that the
suits, accents and gestures transmitted so well over VR phone do not
imply competence or expertise. Coherent conceptualization, which is
all that textual e-mail permits, does. The sooner we understand this,
the better equipped we will be to enter the information age.


Rishab Aiyer Ghosh is a freelance technology consultant
and writer. You can reach him through voice mail (+91 11
3760335) or e-mail ([e-mail]).

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh    [e-mail]
[e-mail]   Vox [phone] Voxmail 3760335
H 34C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA

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Just last night I was driving to Boston, and south of Worcester, I
activated No-Answer-Transfer.

Instead of the Motorola EMX "Beep-Beep-Beep"...etc" tones, I got an
AT&T Autoplex stutter dial-tone confirmation. I then tried call
waiting (the Autoplex has a very distinctive Call-Waiting scheme, and
you even get a stutter dial tone when the calling party gives up and
disconnects), and sure enough, it was an AT&T switch!

Only the western sections of Cell One/Boston's (00007) service area
are served by the Autoplex, the rest get the older EMX, including the
"partnership" system which they co-operate with Atlantic Cellular in
NH (01485). However, I am told that by May 12th, the entire system
will be on the Autoplex, and I assume this means the 01485 system as
well. It will be fun seeing how two different companies, with two
different switches, continue to operate one "seamless" (yeah,
right...) system up in the Lakes region of New Hampshire ...

When Boston gets rid of the EMX, I am told that redirects will still
work to Metro Mobile (BAMS) RI (00119), although they may be a bit
slower and not as elegant as they were on the EMX. (RI is also an EMX,
as is all of Metro Mobile). We'll see ...

One glaring bug on the Autoplex: If you dial 10xxx+0+AC+number, it is
treated as if you just dialed the number direct! You are NOT prompted
for a calling card, and the call goes through and YOU pay for the call
 -- it is not billed to a calling card. I think 10XXX in general is not
working from the Autoplex, although I ddin't try that too extensively.
They are looking into it right now and are supposed to call me back to
let me know when that will be corrected.

Also, late at night I noticed a lot of erroneous "ESN Retricted/Denied"
messages, as well as some NACN-type recordings (The switch recording I
got was DE-32 ... what's DE stand for, Dedham?). So there's a lot of
work going on, and outgoing calls are sporadic at best, and incoming
are just slightly better.

It is an interesting transition though - two switches concurrently
serving the same system. I guess they are testing out the Autoplex in
the less populated sections of their system before they put one in
Boston.

(BTW, SWBell's other A property in the East, DC-MD/00013, is currently
an AT&T Autoplex switch, and yes, they are STILL having isolated
problems where if you register in Baltimore you can't get calls until
you hit DC, which is really weird, and has been going on for over a
year now :( .)


Doug Reuben  *  [e-mail]   *  (500) 442-4CID / (203) 499 -
5221
Interpage Network Services -- http://www.interpage.net, telnet
interpage.net
E-Mail Alpha/Numeric Paging, Voice & Fax Svcs, News, and "Follow Me"
Weather

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I have a ATT System 25 (in a remote location) that we are tring to
setup MOH. From what I am being told to set this up you need a
external piece of ATT equipt. to interface it to a system port. Some
time ago, a tech attempted to install this setup, did the programing
on the port (it's been marked MOH) then discovered that we needed some
sort of interface box to complete the install (at a price of 750.00 or
so).

I have never worked on a System 25 (or any ATT switch for that matter)
but I got to beleive that this box is just some sort of matching
transformer or such. If so could I use something like a Bogen WT-1??
or some other sort of generic matching unit. What pair on the system
port would I use??

Thanks for any help that anyone can provide.


Michael Cummings at home, feet up, in Columbia, MD  Work: 301-680-7906
                                                    DARCARS Automotive
Internet: [e-mail]  Voice: 410-964-5741  Info. Systems Div.
Netkom Stock?? I don't own no stkin' Netkom stock...Pyramid DC/OSx MIS-
12
Yes, here at Netkom, we have BANANAS!!!.............System Admin.

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BK51RESN.RVW   950314

"51 Reasons", Martha Stone-Martin, Laura Breeden, 1994
%A   Martha Stone-Martin
%A   Laura Breeden
%C   114 Waltham Street, Suite 12, Lexington, MA  02173
%D   1994
%I   FARNET, Inc.
%O   [phone] [e-mail]
%P   124
%T   "51 Reasons"

This book contains fifty-six short articles about some aspect of
Internet use.  Fifty-one represent works loosely based in each of the
fifty states (in the U.S.) and the District of Columbia, while five
are author profiles.

The articles cover a wide range of topics.  Most do not go into detail
about the applications used.  Some are a bit odd, such as the history
of SIMTEL20 (which does not mention the recent shut-down at WSMR) and
the promotional piece for Cisco Systems.

This is good material for promoting Internet use.

copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995   BK51RESN.RVW   950314. Distribution
permitted in TELECOM Digest and associated publications. Rob Slade's
book reviews are a regular feature in the Digest.


Vancouver      [e-mail]    | "A ship in port is safe,
Institute for  [e-mail] |  but that is not what
Research into  Rob.Slade@f733.n153/|  ships are for."
User                .z1.fidonet.org|   Adm. Grace Murray Hopper
Security       Canada V7K 2G6      |      after John Parks

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Earlier this month, the FTC released a report on competition in the
long distance industry.  The report attempts to measure market power
by estimating firm-specific demand curves for AT&T and its rivals.
From these, price-cost margins are infered and estimates of the social
cost to above cost pricing by AT&T are calculated.  AT&T's demand
elasticity is estimated to be ~ -10 and the social cost is calculated
to be 0.36% of total industry revenues.

Copies of this report are available from the Federal Trade Commission
or email a request to me, Michael Ward, the report's author at
[e-mail] and I will mail a copy to you.


Regards,

Mike   [e-mail]
[phone]

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In Friday's {Tampa Tribune} and Saturday's {St. Petersburg Times} it
was mentioned that area code 904 will split in early fall of this
year.  The possible area code is 850.  Jacksonville, Tallahassee and
Pensacola will remain in 904 while 850 goes to Gainsville, Ocala,
Daytona Beach.  Basically a line from Crystal River east to Daytona
Beach and south.

Also mentioned is the 954 split from 305.  Southern Bell supports an
overlay while the FL PSC favors 954 for Broward County and 305
remaining for Dade County.  Monroe County (non-mainland, ie the Keys)
is also in 305 so I am not sure what the deal is there.

The 941 split from 813 is scheduled to go ahead in May as planned with
Metro Tampa/St. Pete/Clearwater keeping 813 (Pasco, Pinellas and
Hillsborough Cos) and the rest of 813 moving to 941.


Paul Knupke, Jr.       University of South Florida Computer Engineering
[e-mail]                            Fidonet 1:377/61
Tampa, FL * Amateur Radio Callsign KR4YL * Packet @WA1GUD.#TPA.FL.NOAM

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Pat,

On April 20th AT&T introduced a new service that allows callers to
obtain domestic (USA) and international long distance telephone
numbers -- just by dialing 1-900-555-1212.  (This looks to me like
AT&T's version of MCI's 1-900-GET-INFO service).

I have one "simple" question -- does anyone know who gave AT&T the
right to use this particular number?  It was my understanding that the
NPA-555-1212 number series was reserved for NPA specific directory
assistance -- not for a worldwide directory service operated by AT&T!

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Pat-

I read this on Edupage and thought you might be able to toss it on the
newsgroup if the subject comes up again sometime soon.


> FCC PROPOSES CHANGES IN CELLULAR 911 SERVICE
> A significant portion of the explosive growth in cellular phone
services is
> due to people who buy them to feel safer -- women who worry about
traveling
> alone in their cars, etc.  But now it turns out that 911 calls made
from
> cellular phones are treated differently and the FCC is considering
> requiring cellular providers to improve their service.  While calls
made
> from wired phones are routed to a centralized dispatch center,
cellular
> calls are often routed other places, such as a state-police barracks.
And
> the automated tracking system that identifies where the call is coming
from
> is useless with cellular technology.  The cellular industry is
protesting
> the FCC's proposal, which would require cellular providers to give 911
calls
> priority over other calls and have technology in place within five
years to
>  identify the location from which the call was made.  They point out
that
> 25 million devices have already been sold, making retrofitting the
phones a
> nightmare.  "We sat on our fat fannies 11 years ago when cellular
first came
> out," says the head of a national group of emergency-number
administrators.
> (Wall Street Journal 4/18/95 B1)




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Pat, I was still half asleep this morning, so you might want to get
more pertinent from another source, but WBZ radio in Boston reported
that NYNEX voluntarily agreed to open up to local competition.  A
competing company's name (MFS?) was mentioned, and the story pointed
out that one's phone number wouldn't have to be changed.


Jonathan Welch  VAX Systems Manager  Umass/Amherst
[e-mail]

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Hi Folks,

I was interested to know the extent to which SNMP as a means of
managing telco network is employed. The question why, can be answered
from a simplistic standpoint as to confirm to the emerging network
management(NM) platforms.  Is that the only issue or is it possible
 from SNMP to accomplish the stupendous task of replacing the complex
intricacies involved in telco management. If so, to what extent?

The question why not is driven by the fact that SNMP is a gateway to a
number of off-the shelf products that will realize some of the
operations
performed in telco NM?

Your views/insights/issues concerning the above will truly enligten a
soul that asks one question every morning? should I persue network
management
as a career.


Suresh     [e-mail]

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I just had a second phone line installed and am having trouble with the
color coding on the wires.

Line 1 is on GREEN-RED

Line 2 is on YELLOW-BLACK

I have two cables in my main box inside the house; one coming from the
outside into the house and one going to the jack in the bedroom.

I tried GREEN to GREEN, RED to RED, ect.  It doesn't seem to work.
Actually, the old number works fine, the new number, which is for data,
seems to disconect frequently.

Any assistance will be appriciated, via e mail please.


Thanks,

Bob from Seattle

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Where can I find out more information on pagers that receive audio
messages (not cut-through voice-mail pagers, but real voice pagers)?


TIA,

Dan

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Does anyone know of a telecom glossary somewhere on the net?  I enjoy
reading the discussions on this group but am confused by the ubiquitous
use of acronyms.

Thanks in advance.  Please reply by posting a follow-up.


Nicol


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Check out the various glossaries in the
Telecom Archives. We have several different files dealing with telecom
terms.  There are a couple ways to do this:  you can use anonymous ftp
lcs.mit.edu. Login anonymous then 'cd telecom-archives/glossaries'. You
can then pull the files back to your site. The other method is to use
the Telecom Archives Email Information Service. You can send a blank
message to '[e-mail]' and a help file will be sent back
to you explaining how to use the service. Via the email service you can
either pull the glossaries files back to your site or you can use the
interactive SEARCH command in your email.   PAT]

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Pat, on the heels of my request and after reading your notes about the
bombing,
you may be happy to see that big corporation has a heart too.

                               News Flash
                             April 20, 1995
MCI Consumer Markets issued the following media advisory to local
Oklahoma
City media this afternoon:

MCI OFFERS SUPPORT TO OKLAHOMA CITY

Recognizing the importance for loved ones to stay in touch during this
time of need, MCI is pleased to announce that long distance calls made
by MCI residential customers in Oklahoma City to anyone in the U.S.
are free of charge, effective midnight, Wednesday, April 19 through
11:59 pm on Sunday, April 23.

For those consumers who may not be MCI customers, MCI has donated MCI
PhoneCash calling cards for consumers to make free long distance calls
anywhere in the United States.  Beginning tomorrow, consumers may
simply pick up PhoneCash cards at the following locations:

St. Luke's United Methodist Church         First Christian Church
222 Northwest 15th                         3700 North Walker
phone: [phone]                            phone: [phone]

MCI has also provided MCI pagers and paging service to the local Red
Cross
chapter for their volunteers to stay in touch and coordinate efforts to
help
those affected by this tragedy.

For more information, contact Kate Fralin or Carol Aarhus at MCI's Media
Relations office at 1-800-436-9749.

                             -----------------

TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This a very generous offer by MCI and I
thank you for bringing it to the attention of the readers. And as a side
note, although I am not familiar with St. Luke's in Oklahoma City and
their involvement in the events of last week, I can say regards the
First Christian Church that their involvement since the first day --
even
the first couple hours -- of the tragic event has been enormous. Without
regard to their own scheduled activities, they have provided numerous
community services, and helped coordinate the flow of information
between
loved ones. And I don't mean to single them out above the many other
volunteers and fine organizations in that city, however First Christian
Church has been mentioned numerous times in the national newscasts from
OKC as a clearinghouse for information, a place to seek help, etc. I
listened to the memorial service on the radio yesterday afternoon and
one of the speakers -- Clinton I think -- noted that 'anyone who says
Americans are selfish, unconcerned and greedy has never been to
Oklahoma.'

If you have not yet specifically sent email to President Clinton in a
display of unity with our elected leader in this time of national
tragedy
please do so today by emailing '[e-mail]'. Please let
him know that despite the several differences many of you (and certainly
I!) may have with him, you stand united with him as recovery and the
healing process begins.  Thanks very much, and thanks also to MCI for
their gesture.   PAT]

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> So go with whichever one is the most liberal in handing out those
checks
> or 'pay to the order of the telephone company' gift certificates.

One free month of long distance on MCI, up to $1000.00, is available to
business customers via its MCI Preferred program.  No term commitment or
contract required.

Or you may elect to take 10,000 frequent flyer miles instead of the
free month.

If you have a business and would like more information, please e-mail.


Van Hutchinson     [e-mail]
Tel:  [phone] ext. 231

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