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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:19:43 EST
- From: Paul Robinson <FZC@CU.NIH.GOV>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Telephone Lines Being Disconnected; Question
- Reply-To: TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 853, Message 11 of 13
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- Several people have commented about alarm systems being cut and other
- such things. (I deleted the message I had from a gentleman in South
- Africa; I replied to him about telephone reliability). Other people
- have spoke about "pinging" lines and so on.
-
- In the original Die Hard (the one that started all of the competitors
- including Die Harder, Under Siege, Passenger 57, and so on) the
- opening scene involves a group of criminals intercepting certain phone
- lines with a briefcase sized device that apparently generated a tone
- on a certain frequency, probably to simulate a circuit being active
- for alarms that are triggered if cut.
-
- The other member of the group then cut all the phone lines for the
- building by running a chainsaw through the four conduits which are
- about as thick as a man's arm, cutting off everyone's phone service.
-
- I notice that in the first film, one of the people had either a
- cellular or older wireless telephone in a suitcase to call 9-1-1 with
- (looked like a cellular handset) but it was very large.
-
- I'm not sure if cellular has gotten much more popular recently than it
- was before, but then again most people don't have cellular phones at
- their desks when they have a fully working centrex system.
-
- In the second film several cellular phones were used, including some
- trick shots, like calling UP to a plane radiotelephone, nice try but
- not yet available.
-
- Question: Does anyone on here have a personal 800 number that shows
- ANI, and called it from a cellular phone, as well as a cellular phone
- on a plane, to see what phone number showed up on the ANI list? Or
- tried calling that special ANI id number on AT&T's private phone
- network (someone remember, it's a number in Atlanta on a special 10xxx
- exchange?)
-
-
- Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM These opinions are mine alone.
-
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Cellular phones have gained a lot of popularity
- here in Chicago in the past few weeks because of several vicious
- attacks on motorists traveling alone on the highway who have been
- murdered by people who stopped to 'help them get their car going',
- etc. To Caller-ID in Chicago, a call from a cell phone registers as
- 'outside'; with 800 ANI, in the case of Ameritech Mobile, those calls
- show up with a phone number in the Illinois Bell CO in one of the
- soutwest suburbs. Try calling back to that number and you are told the
- number xxx-xxxx is not in service for incoming calls. Do a name and
- address check on the number and you are told it is listed to "Eye Bee
- Tea Co." at an address on West 87th Street in one of the suburbs which
- happens to be the street address of the CO. PAT]
-
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