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TELECOM Digest     Fri, 11 Mar 94 13:43:00 CST    Volume 14 : Issue 125

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Unitel Carrier Vote Proposal Criticised (Bell News via Dave Leibold)
    Expanded 900 Service in Canada (Bell News via Dave Leibold)
    Experience With a Telemarketer (Dave Niebuhr)
    Competition and Technology (Stewart Fist)
    "Nevada Plan" Information Needed (Tad J. Hunt)
    Latest Telephone Scumbag Use (Dave Niebuhr)
    ISDN BRI to IXC? (John McHarry)
    Video Conference Bridges (John McHarry)
    Mintel Emulation Software for MacIntosh Wanted (Franck Nazikian)
    Re: Erlang B and Required Trunks Functions (Stu Jeffery)
    Re: Information on Used Telecom Equipment Dealer Wanted (Dennis R. Hilton)
    Re: Digital Cellular Phones (David Boettger)
    Re: Can I Expect More Than 2400 Baud?  (Bill Mayhew)
    Re: Unzipping ISDN File in Archives ([e-mail])
    Re: Local CID Showing Out of Area (Dave Niebuhr)
    Re: Country Code For San Marino? (Bill Hofmann)
    Re: Prisoner Starts Own 900 Number (Eric Andruscavage)

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Leibold)
Date: 10 Mar 1994 23:08:42 -0500
Subject: Unitel Carrier Vote Proposal Criticised
Organization: FidoNet: The Super Continental - North York, Canada


[from Bell News, Bell Ontario 7 Mar 94]

Bell votes NO to Unitel's balloting proposal

Bell strongly objects to the procedure, the price and the principle of
"balloting" customers to ask them to vote for the long distance carrier
they would prefer to do business with.

Last Wednesday, Unitel Communications asked the CRTC to implement
balloting to "provide residential and business customers with the
opportunity to select their preferred long-distance carrier."

The procedure, countered Bell, would be "complex and costly, one not
in the public interest" -- a position Unitel itself previously advanced.
The price, pointed out Bell, would involve some $15 million in mailing
costs alone.

But the principle of this referendum, said Bell, "ignores the fact
that competition and free choice are already here in Canada -- and have
been here for almost two years now. Consumers can pick up the phone
and select any alternate long distance carrier they want today."

"While Unitel wraps itself in the flags of competition and choice,
what it is really proposing is the imposition of another layer of
regulatory process in what is -- and should remain -- a free market
decision," the company said in a public statement.

Furthermore, said Bell, "We don't think customers will buy into the
idea of a cumbersome, disruptive, and ultimately costly process that
purports to give them what they already have: full choice.

"It's like asking customers to fill out a ballot to decide what
grocery store to shop at; they go to the one they believe offers them
the best service and the best value. We doubt that customers want to
be subjected to a referendum process for this kind of everyday, free
market decision."

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Leibold)
Date: 10 Mar 1994 23:09:06 -0500
Subject: Expanded 900 Service in Canada
Organization: FidoNet: The Super Continental - North York, Canada


[from Bell News, Bell Ontario 7 Mar 94]

Advantage 900 now interactive

Advantage 900 service has just become interactive, and less _risque._

The CRTC has granted approval of an enhanced Advantage 900 [tm]
service. The enhancements include premises-based Advantage 900 and
premium pricing which have been added to the already available
network-based Advantage 900.

With Advantage 900, callers are invited to dial certain 900-prefixed
numbers so they can, for example, catch up on the latest news, get
help while using their computer, or show their support for a political
candidate.

Information providers who qualify with the CRTC guidelines for content
(porn purveyors won't make the grade) can have callers pay for Advantage
900 on a per-call basis, with the charges appearing on their telephone
bill.

Stentor developed the new premises-based Advantage 900 in response to
customer demand for a more interactive way to communicate with callers.

With premises-based Advantage 900, businesses and organization can
offer pre- recorded, live and interactive programming from virtually
anywhere in Canada.  Callers have easy, direct-dial access to the
customized information they need.  Calls can terminate at the
business's or organization's location, instead of at a telephone
company office.

With premium pricing, businesses, governments and organizations with
Advantage 900 have the flexibility to set the price charged to
Advantage 900 callers.  They can also arrange to have the Stentor-
owner companies, like Bell, bill and collect charges on their behalf.

Previously, only network-based Advantage 900 has been available. With
network-based Advantage 900, all calls are routed to recorded messages
 which are stored on the local telephone company's equipment, so callers
had access only to one-way information.

With approval from the CRTC, Stentor now has strict program content
guidelines and consumer safeguards for Advantage 900 to protect
callers from incurring unwanted charges. For example, the guidelines
do not permit adult programming -- so called "gab" lines -- or programs
that assign personal identification numbers (PINS) which must be used in
subsequent calls.

Callers will also hear a preamble message describing the program, the
call charge and the service provider's name. If callers hang up in the
first 18 seconds of the call, they will not be charged.

The maximum allowable charges for Advantage 900 are $3.00 per call for
programs intended for children and $50.00 for all other programs.

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 06:43:14 EST
From: [e-mail] (Dave Niebuhr)
Subject: Experience with a Telemarketer


I had an interesting experience with a persistent telemarketer last
night.

I'm listed in the phone book but not under my name.

The first call came in (labelled Out-of-Area on my CID box) and the
caller was told that there was no one in the house named "insert a
name" there; less than a minute another call came in with the same ID
and I took the call and told the woman that there was no one living in
my house with the name she mentioned and that her information was
obviously incorrect (true since it doesn't reveal my name).

Call number three was the shortest.  As soon as I said hello, she
hung up.

Using the pseuodnym is handy since it eliminates the "wheat from the
chaff" type of telemarketing calls.  Yes, I do accept some calls but
only from companies that I deal with.  Sears is an example.  I'll get
calls from them to take out a service contract on some appliance that
I've bought from them; my fuel oil company trying to sell me fuel oil
(yes, it does do that), etc.


Dave Niebuhr      Internet: [e-mail] (preferred)
                            [e-mail] / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
Senior Technical Specialist, Scientific Computing Facility
Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973  (516)-282-3093

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From: Stewart Fist <[e-mail]>
Subject: Competition and Technology
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 11:14:05 GMT


Jerry Leichter <[e-mail]> writes:

> I have great respect for competition, but I have yet to see a sound
> argument that the advance in services available *since* deregulation
> is signficantly different from the advance *before* deregulation -
> AFTER CONTROLLING FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVANCE IN APPLICABLE
> TECHNOLOGY.

I couldn't agree more.  I've just spent a lot of time analysing the
long-distance charges (and the changes thereof) from country A to country B
using a range of figures produced by the OECD, for a commissioned report.

It is difficult stuff to analyse, but one thing became quite clear.
There's been no more drop in international long-distance call prices
in advanced (OECD) countries with competitive regimes than there has
in those with monopoly regimes.  I must say I was surprised at these
findings, because the monopolies actually did slightly better --
although the difference wasn't significant.

My guess is that this results from a monopoly (at one end of a
connection) having a duopoly to deal with (at the other), and
therefore they can deal in such a way as to retain mutual higher
prices from the duopoly end to the monopoly, but not from the monopoly
end to the duopoly.  The other guess, is that the duopolies and full
competitive regimes spend so much on marketing and advertising that it
wipes any 'competitive' advantage out.  Certainly telephone companies
are now the major financial supporters of television networks because
of their levels of ad expenditure.

One of the problems with Adam Smithian economics and the value of
competition, is that it assumes that the price set by the suppliers
results from the sale of a scarce resource.  The whole of modern
economic theory rests on the theory that price is a balance between
competiting suppliers bidding down the price (to near real-cost
levels) and competing buyers who will effectively pay ever higher
prices for advantage in accessing the scarce resource.  Eventually a
balance is reached between the buyers buying, and the sellers selling.

The trouble is that once you lay in a 36 fibre 1.2 Gigabit/sec cable
between a couple of reasonable size towns, and you shove 32kbit/s
ADPCM along it, you get a theoretical 1.3 million simultaneous calls,
at an amortised price of about $US6 million a year for distances of
about 1000 km.  Which works out to about $5 per year per voice
circuit.

How does competition operate in an environment like this?  Obviously,
at these cost levels and with this capacity, a single cable, or a
couple can satisfy most of the requirements of our largest cities -
and the total expenditure on the cable is chickenfeed.  Is it then in
the interests of the competing companies to battle fiercely for market
share by dropping prices, or by using the profit creaming to fund
marketing plans and advertising?

When you dig down to the bottom, the problem is that in an era where
long-distance connection abundance is the norm (except that in many
cases this is being deliberately knobbled) the normal competitive
market forces do not apply in the way that conventional economics says
it should.

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From: jjmhome![e-mail] (Tad J. Hunt)
Subject: "Nevada Plan" Information Needed
Date: 11 Mar 1994 12:09:55 -0500
Organization: Murray Enterprises


I am looking for information related to what has been referred to as
the Nevada Plan -- an arrangment where a long distance company pays
the local termination charges to the owner of the phone number instead
of the local phone company but that number can only be reached by
using that long distance carrier.  I would like to know if any special
phone equipment is necessary to operate under such an arrangement.
And who can I contact at AT&T or some other carrier to discuss this?

I believe that speedway.net, an Internet services provider, is set up
this way.

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 08:42:45 EST
From: [e-mail] (Dave Niebuhr)
Subject: Latest Telephone Scumbag Use


There is a scumbag on Long Island (area code 516) who is preying on
women at home with the use of telephones.

This dirtbag is calling the women and telling them that they have
kidnapped their husbands and won't release them until the woman
performs sexual acts with him.  Even worse is that not only does he
call at various hours during the day, but he calls during rush hours
when the husband is more than likely unavailable.

One call had a twist: he told the woman that he had kidnapped her
mother and was going to rape her if she wife didn't comply.

The police have advised that all calls should be reported immediately
and if the homeowner has Caller ID, that should be checked to see if a
number appears.  Fat chance on this since Caller ID isn't 100 percent
deployed to all exchanges and all possible telephone numbers.  A
better way would be to use the "Trap and Trace" feature even if it
costs $0.75(US) per use and I believe it is available on all lines the
same as per-call or per-line blocking.


Dave Niebuhr      Internet: [e-mail] (preferred)
                            [e-mail] / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
Senior Technical Specialist, Scientific Computing Facility
Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973  (516)-282-3093


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This is an old one; it has gone around
for many years. I remember hearing the phone company and police warn
people against this ruse thirty years ago. I think you have to be awfully
dumb to fall for it, but then, a lot of people are awfully dumb which is
why it always seems to work so well with each new generation. One woman
completly messed up the game when she got called: after being told her
husband had been kidnapped and what she would have to do to get him back
her answer was, "Keep the old %$^&^* ... I don't want him back."  PAT]

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 11:46:01 EST
From: John McHarry <[e-mail]>
Subject: ISDN BRI to IXC?


If I have an ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI) from my local exchange
carrier and want to place an interexchange data call, how does the LEC
interconnect with the IXC?  Somebody told me that this has to be
hooked to a switched 56kb trunk, but I don't see why the LEC couldn't
just send it in a regular Feature Group D and tell the IXC it was a
data call in the SS7 message.  Am I missing something?

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From: John McHarry <[e-mail]>
Subject: Video Conference bridges
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 11:49:33 EST


Who makes video conference bridges?  What types of compressed video
can they work with?  Any thoughts on what is good, bad, etc.?


John McHarry  [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 02:03:14 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Franck Nazikian)
Subject: Minitel Emulation Software for MacIntosh Wanted


Thank you very much for your help!  I finally could solve my problem
of Minitel emulation for P.C.  Now, I've got another request: where
can I find a Minitel emulation software for Macintosh, available on
the Internet?


Best regards,

CII ITESM
Franck NAZIKIAN
Sucursal de Correos "J"
MONTERREY N.L. 64849  MEXICO
Tel: [phone] exts.50-76
Fax: [phone]
Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 00:02:35 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Stu Jeffery)
Subject: Re: Erlang B and Required Trunks Functions


In TELECOM Digest V14 #121 [e-mail] (John Osmon)
writes:

> I am a programmer in the Telecom Department here at Dell, and my
> latest project is to pull trunk usage data and produce usage
> predictions for said trunks.

> This isn't really my field, so I had a co-worker write the request for
> me:

>  We need a way to calculate the number of voice circuits needed to
>  provide standard levels of service using the Retrial method.  Ideally
>  we would plug into a formula the following:

>     - offered CCS of traffic
>     - grade-of-service desired (P.01, P.001, P.05)

>  The formula would then calculate the number of trunks needed WITHOUT
>  resorting to lookup tables.

>  If available, formulas for Erlang B method would also be useful.

> These would be most useful as assembler, C, or XBase sub-routines.
> Does any one know where I can find these?

There are several ways of solving the equations with a recursive form
of the Equation. I have seen several Traffic Engineering books with
Basic programs.  Here is one example in C that I wrote.

/*
 * This program will compute required number of circuits
 * for designated Grade of Service, using Erlang B equation
 */

 /*
  * include files
  */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

main()
{
        double C, Traffic, GOS, Prob_of_cong, B;
        int Trunks, A_max;

        while ( 1 == 1)
        {
        printf( "Offered Traffic: " );
        scanf( "%lf", &Traffic);
        printf( "GOS: " );
        scanf( "%lf", &GOS )
        Prob_of_cong = 1;
        Trunks = 0
        while ( Prob_of_cong > GOS)

        {
                Trunks = Trunks + 1;
                Prob_of_cong = (Prob_of_cong * Traffic) /
                         (Trunks + (Traffic * Prob_of_cong));

        }
        printf( "Number of ckts  %i and conjestion %5.4f\n",
                 Trunks, Prob_of_cong );

        printf (" \n");

        }
}

Sample output

Offered Traffic: 10
GOS: .01
Number of ckts  18 and conjestion 0.0071

Offered Traffic: 10
GOS: .02
Number of ckts  17 and conjestion 0.0129

Offered Traffic: 10
GOS: .05
Number of ckts  15 and conjestion 0.0365

Offered Traffic: 20
GOS: .01
Number of ckts  30 and conjestion 0.0085

Offered Traffic: 20
GOS: .02
Number of ckts  28 and conjestion 0.0188

Offered Traffic: 20
GOS: .05
Number of ckts  26 and conjestion 0.0372


Stu Jeffery         Internet: [e-mail]
1072 Seena Ave.              voice:   415-966-8199
Los Altos, CA. 94024         fax:     [phone]

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From: sgiblab!kaiwan.com!troi![e-mail] (Dennis R. Hilton)
Subject: Re: Information on Used Telecom Equipment Dealer Wanted
Date: 11 Mar 94 04:46:32 GMT
Reply-To: sgiblab!kaiwan.com!troi![e-mail]
Organization: kaiwan.com Internet Access [phone]


In article <[e-mail]>, Kenneth Leung wrote:

> I am looking for dealers of used telecom equipment such as AT&T Merlin
> phone sets and used AT&T PBXs.

Call information for Long Beach, CA, and ask for Native Son (or Sun)
communications.


Best,

Dennis R. Hilton     <[e-mail]>

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 07:32:00 +0000
From: david boettger <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Digital Cellular Phones


In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Steve
Forrette) writes:

> In <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (John Galloway) writes:

>> But if this key is fixed (since it is not transmited I assume it is)
>> then all the cellular blue box builder need to is disect a phone to
>> get it.  This might not be a trivial opeation, but these crooks are
>> pretty smart fellows.

> Are you assuming that the key is the same for all phones?

What good is a key that's the same for all phones?

> If the key is different for each phone, then the crook would have to
> get a hold of a particular phone to dissect it to get the key.  And if
> they have physical possession of the phone, there is little need to
> get the key in order to make fraudulent calls, right?

Yup. That's the idea.

David Boettger   [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Bill Mayhew)
Subject: Re: Can I Expect More Than 2400 Baud?
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 16:34:10 GMT


As pointed out, the underlying symbol rate for 14.4 Kbps modems is
still 2400 baud.  Nonetheless, my practical experience in running our
modem bank connecting 13 hospitals in six cities here in NE Ohio, is
that 14.4K is much more troublesome than 9600 bps data calls over POTS
(plain old telephone service) lines.

I use good quailty Multitech or DSI rack type modems on my end, but
the user community can have almost any sort of equipment.  The
Multitechs support 14.4K v.32bis while the DSIs are 9600 v.32 max
modulation.  There is definitely a correlation between good name brand
equipment and the success of the connection.

My chief problem is that users call my system with their modems set to
demand 14.4K rate.  Our systems will connect, but the error correction
rate is so high that througput is almost zero.  Apparently, whatever
heuristic method is used by the modems doesn't see anything wrong with
the connection and thus force a fallback.  I do have my end programmed
to accept and/or request a fallback.  I've also tried calling from
some of the troublesome locations and thus am sure that their modems
have fallback enabled too, yet the connection will remain stoically
locked at 14.4K doing copious error correction with abysmal throghput.
I've gone over the prblem with Multitech and didn't get anything more
than the patented Tom and Ray Magliozi mechanic's shrug as a response.
>From those same troublesome locations, virtually all calls forced to
initate with 9600 moduation complete with hardly any error correction
and good througput.

I don't have any current means of measuring it, but what I am
beginning to suspect is that there is phase jitter present on these
lines.  The modem training sequence can do echo cancellation, group
delay equalization and amplitude equalization, but the training
sequence can't compensate for rapidly varying phase shift on the line.
The nature of the problems I have doesn't seem to depend on the length
of the circuit or number of central offices involved.

What puzzles me is that the modems don't fall back when the performacne
gets to be so bad.  It would appear that the error correction engine
needs to have some sort of input the the egine that handles modulation.
I am not imtimately familiar with v.32bis / v.42bis specifications,
but some handshaking between the two parts of the modem would seem to
be a most reasonable and logical thing to do.


Bill Mayhew        NEOUCOM Computer Services Department
Rootstown, OH  44272-0095  USA      phone: [phone]
[e-mail]       amateur radio 146.58: N8WED

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 01:58:00 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Unzipping ISDN File in Archives


[e-mail] (jeff shaver) wrote:

> I recently ftp'ed the ISDN.deployment.data.zip file from the Telecom
> Archives, but I can't unzip it.  PKZip 2.04(g?) tells me it's not a
> zip file.  Any ideas?  Thanks for your help!

The file may have been zipped using an older version of PKZip.  PKWare
came out with a new version of the zipping software, which is not bak-
wards compatible with the older version.  It may need the older version
to unzip it properly.  (This created downloading hell on a lot of bulletin
boards here recently.)

Another possibility is that the FTP was done using ASCII, not binary,
resulting in a corruption of the file as it came over the system.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Whatever the cause, I now have another
copy of it here in a MIME version and will send it to whoever writes me
to ask for it.  This one is supposed to work with 2.04 PKUNZIP.   PAT]

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 06:35:55 EST
From: [e-mail] (Dave Niebuhr)
Subject: Re: Local CID Showing Out of Area


> [e-mail] (Steve Forrette) wrote:

> In <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Richard
> Dervan) writes:

>> I had an interesting experience last week.  I got paged by my computer
>> indicating it had received a voice message for me.  Since I was
>> expecting a message from my sweetie, I went to a pay phone, called my
>> computer, and picked up the message.

>> When I got home, I saw OUT-OF-AREA on my CID box.

> Did you use coins to place the call?  Any other method of payment
> (such as calling card, collect, etc) is likely to cause OUT OF AREA on
> a Caller ID box, even if both ends of the call are in the same CO.

When CID was deployed in my area (516 area code), I tried calling home
from a pay phone and the number was displayed.  However, when I call
home while I'm having my car serviced at a local service station, the
number doesn't show.

The difference is that the pay phone on the corner is NYNEX owned,
and the other one is a COCOT.


Dave Niebuhr      Internet: [e-mail] (preferred)
                            [e-mail] / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
Senior Technical Specialist, Scientific Computing Facility
Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973  (516)-282-3093

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From: [e-mail] (Bill Hofmann)
Subject: Re: Country Code For San Marino?
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 17:09:38 GMT


I just checked out the report from Martin Kealey about San Marino's
country code change.  According to Sprint International Operator, the
country code is indeed 378.

Also, on the former Soviet Union, I just heard from Lithuania's embassy
about telecom there.  Some highlights:

* city codes have been shortened: Vilnius now is "2", not "0122"
  other city codes are shortened in a similar way.
* long distance access code is 8<pause>2, intl is 8<pause>10
* operator is 8p194, 8p195 (English), 8p196 (AT&T)

There are access codes to former USSR cities, but I don't have the data
in front of me.


Bill Hofmann  [e-mail]
Fresh Software and Instructional Design  [phone]

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From: [e-mail] (Eric Andruscavage)
Subject: Re: Prisoner Starts Own 900 Number
Date: 11 Mar 1994 12:53:29 -0500
Organization: Zeta Data, Laurel, Maryland, USA


> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: ... this? Because they take advantage
> of a class of people who have absolutely no other choice in how
> their phone calls are placed; i.e. prisoners.

Does this mean that prison phones are blocked from calling 1-800-COLLECT
or the 800 number for AT&T long distance?  I would like to say that I once
got a collect call from a prisoner (wrong number, I hope) and the
operator made it clear that it was a collect call from a federal
prison.  Since we normally accepted collect calls, I would have taken
the call if this hadn't been made clear.  I wonder if MCI or AT&T would
provide the same service.


Eric Andruscavage
First thing - let's kill all the Shakespeareans
DBMS Design/Programming/Training/Answers Questioned
Laurel, Maryland  *  301/206-2030


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There is a Class of Service available in
modern switches to accomodate telephones used by prison inmates. For quite
a long time all the phones at Cook County Jail including the administrative
ones have been on their own centrex: 312-890. But the phones used by prison-
ers are very restricted.

All calls have to be dialed zero-plus.  All one-plus calls are intercepted
with 'call cannot be completed as dialed ...' Stuff like 10xxx/800/950/etc.
is totally blocked out. Those calls all go to intercept if dialed as
one-plus and just vanish in the ether, neither completing or getting denied
if dialed as zero-plus. Zero-plus any regular area code and number brings a
telco operator on the line whose display clearly indicates the circumstances
and the *only* way she can process the call is on a collect basis. No credit
card or third number billing is allowed, and as you pointed out, the operator
plainly tells the called party that the call is collect from (name), a
prisoner at Cook County Jail. If someone knew the numbers on the phones in the
cellblocks and tries to call in, an intercept says the number is in service
for outgoing calls only. The phones all have rotary dials, of course, so there
can be no games with touch-tones. Dialing to other extensions on the centrex
is blocked, as are calls to the 0 operator, 411, 611, and 911.

In the regulations pertaining to equal access and the use of 10xxx, etc, there
are exceptions built in for certain circumstances, prisons and jails being one
such circumstance. Gee, and *you* thought the college phone system in your
dorm was pretty restrictive :)  Look how bad the 'students' have it at the
College of Hard Knocks and Practical Experience.  :)   PAT]

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TELECOM Digest     Fri, 11 Mar 94 14:51:00 CST    Volume 14 : Issue 126

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Country Code Listing (Lars Poulsen)
    BCE Buys More Atlantic Interests (Bell News via Dave Leibold)
    Mexico Link For Canada Direct (Bell News via Dave Leibold)
    Re: Clipped Again (Maxime Taksar)
    MCI Wow It's Hot Hotline (Jonny Quest)
    Re: Prisoner Starts Own 900 Number (Steve Cogorno)

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 09:58:08 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Lars Poulsen)
Subject: Country Code Listing
Organization: CMC Network Products, Copenhagen DENMARK


In article <[e-mail]> is written:

> Can anyone send me a list of current two and three character country
> codes. I have most of them, but what with the breakup of various
> countries and what-not, I figure I'm missing a few (codes, that is)

I found this list at my local IP service provider's FTP server.  The
three-digits codes are NOT telephone country codes; the only place I
have seen them used, is in MS-DOS.

Postal Address:
   ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
   DIN Burggrafenstrasse 6
   D-1000 Berlin 30
   phone: [phone]
   Fax:   [phone]

NOTE: Entries for Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia Hercegovina not yet complete.

AFGHANISTAN                                     AF      AFG     004
ALBANIA                                         AL      ALB     008
ALGERIA                                         DZ      DZA     012
AMERICAN SAMOA                                  AS      ASM     016
ANDORRA                                         AD      AND     020
ANGOLA                                          AO      AGO     024
ANGUILLA                                        AI      AIA     660
ANTARCTICA                                      AQ      ATA     010
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA                             AG      ATG     028
ARGENTINA                                       AR      ARG     032
ARMENIA                                         AM      ARM     051
ARUBA                                           AW      ABW     533
AUSTRALIA                                       AU      AUS     036
AUSTRIA                                         AT      AUT     040
AZERBAIJAN                                      AZ      AZE     031
BAHAMAS                                         BS      BHS     044
BAHRAIN                                         BH      BHR     048
BANGLADESH                                      BD      BGD     050
BARBADOS                                        BB      BRB     052
BELGIUM                                         BE      BEL     056
BELIZE                                          BZ      BLZ     084
BENIN                                           BJ      BEN     204
BERMUDA                                         BM      BMU     060
BHUTAN                                          BT      BTN     064
BOLIVIA                                         BO      BOL     068
BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA                              BA      BIH
BOTSWANA                                        BW      BWA     072
BOUVET ISLAND                                   BV      BVT     074
BRAZIL                                          BR      BRA     076
BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY                  IO      IOT     086
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM                               BN      BRN     096
BULGARIA                                        BG      BGR     100
BURKINA FASO                                    BF      BFA     854
BURUNDI                                         BI      BDI     108
BELARUS                                         BY      BLR     112
CAMBODIA                                        KH      KHM     116
CAMEROON                                        CM      CMR     120
CANADA                                          CA      CAN     124
CAPE VERDE                                      CV      CPV     132
CAYMAN ISLANDS                                  KY      CYM     136
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC                        CF      CAF     140
CHAD                                            TD      TCD     148
CHILE                                           CL      CHL     152
CHINA                                           CN      CHN     156
CHRISTMAS ISLAND                                CX      CXR     162
COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS                         CC      CCK     166
COLOMBIA                                        CO      COL     170
COMOROS                                         KM      COM     174
CONGO                                           CG      COG     178
COOK ISLANDS                                    CK      COK     184
COSTA RICA                                      CR      CRI     188
COTE D'IVOIRE                                   CI      CIV     384
CROATIA                                         HR      HRV
CUBA                                            CU      CUB     192
CYPRUS                                          CY      CYP     196
CZECH REPUBLIC                                  CZ      CZE     203
CZECHOSLOVAKIA                                  CS      CSK     200
DENMARK                                         DK      DNK     208
DJIBOUTI                                        DJ      DJI     262
DOMINICA                                        DM      DMA     212
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC                              DO      DOM     214
EAST TIMOR                                      TP      TMP     626
ECUADOR                                         EC      ECU     218
EGYPT                                           EG      EGY     818
EL SALVADOR                                     SV      SLV     222
EQUATORIAL GUINEA                               GQ      GNQ     226
ESTONIA                                         EE      EST     233
ETHIOPIA                                        ET      ETH     230
FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)                     FK      FLK     238
FAROE ISLANDS                                   FO      FRO     234
FIJI                                            FJ      FJI     242
FINLAND                                         FI      FIN     246
FRANCE                                          FR      FRA     250
FRENCH GUIANA                                   GF      GUF     254
FRENCH POLYNESIA                                PF      PYF     258
FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES                     TF      ATF     260
GABON                                           GA      GAB     266
GAMBIA                                          GM      GMB     270
GEORGIA                                         GE      GEO     268
GERMANY                                         DE      DEU     276
GHANA                                           GH      GHA     288
GIBRALTAR                                       GI      GIB     292
GREECE                                          GR      GRC     300
GREENLAND                                       GL      GRL     304
GRENADA                                         GD      GRD     308
GUADELOUPE                                      GP      GLP     312
GUAM                                            GU      GUM     316
GUATEMALA                                       GT      GTM     320
GUINEA                                          GN      GIN     324
GUINEA-BISSAU                                   GW      GNB     624
GUYANA                                          GY      GUY     328
HAITI                                           HT      HTI     332
HEARD AND MC DONALD ISLANDS                     HM      HMD     334
HONDURAS                                        HN      HND     340
HONG KONG                                       HK      HKG     344
HUNGARY                                         HU      HUN     348
ICELAND                                         IS      ISL     352
INDIA                                           IN      IND     356
INDONESIA                                       ID      IDN     360
IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)                      IR      IRN     364
IRAQ                                            IQ      IRQ     368
IRELAND                                         IE      IRL     372
ISRAEL                                          IL      ISR     376
ITALY                                           IT      ITA     380
JAMAICA                                         JM      JAM     388
JAPAN                                           JP      JPN     392
JORDAN                                          JO      JOR     400
KAZAKHSTAN                                      KZ      KAZ     398
KENYA                                           KE      KEN     404
KIRIBATI                                        KI      KIR     296
KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF          KP      PRK     408
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF                              KR      KOR     410
KUWAIT                                          KW      KWT     414
KYRGYZSTAN                                      KG      KGZ     417
LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC                LA      LAO     418
LATVIA                                          LV      LVA     428
LEBANON                                         LB      LBN     422
LESOTHO                                         LS      LSO     426
LIBERIA                                         LR      LBR     430
LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA                          LY      LBY     434
LIECHTENSTEIN                                   LI      LIE     438
LITHUANIA                                       LT      LTU     440
LUXEMBOURG                                      LU      LUX     442
MACAU                                           MO      MAC     446
MADAGASCAR                                      MG      MDG     450
MALAWI                                          MW      MWI     454
MALAYSIA                                        MY      MYS     458
MALDIVES                                        MV      MDV     462
MALI                                            ML      MLI     466
MALTA                                           MT      MLT     470
MARSHALL ISLANDS                                MH      MHL     584
MARTINIQUE                                      MQ      MTQ     474
MAURITANIA                                      MR      MRT     478
MAURITIUS                                       MU      MUS     480
MEXICO                                          MX      MEX     484
MICRONESIA                                      FM      FSM     583
MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF                            MD      MDA     498
MONACO                                          MC      MCO     492
MONGOLIA                                        MN      MNG     496
MONTSERRAT                                      MS      MSR     500
MOROCCO                                         MA      MAR     504
MOZAMBIQUE                                      MZ      MOZ     508
MYANMAR                                         MM      MMR     104
NAMIBIA                                         NA      NAM     516
NAURU                                           NR      NRU     520
NEPAL                                           NP      NPL     524
NETHERLANDS                                     NL      NLD     528
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES                            AN      ANT     532
NEUTRAL ZONE                                    NT      NTZ     536
NEW CALEDONIA                                   NC      NCL     540
NEW ZEALAND                                     NZ      NZL     554
NICARAGUA                                       NI      NIC     558
NIGER                                           NE      NER     562
NIGERIA                                         NG      NGA     566
NIUE                                            NU      NIU     570
NORFOLK ISLAND                                  NF      NFK     574
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS                        MP      MNP     580
NORWAY                                          NO      NOR     578
OMAN                                            OM      OMN     512
PAKISTAN                                        PK      PAK     586
PALAU                                           PW      PLW     585
PANAMA                                          PA      PAN     590
PAPUA NEW GUINEA                                PG      PNG     598
PARAGUAY                                        PY      PRY     600
PERU                                            PE      PER     604
PHILIPPINES                                     PH      PHL     608
PITCAIRN                                        PN      PCN     612
POLAND                                          PL      POL     616
PORTUGAL                                        PT      PRT     620
PUERTO RICO                                     PR      PRI     630
QATAR                                           QA      QAT     634
REUNION                                         RE      REU     638
ROMANIA                                         RO      ROM     642
RUSSIAN FEDERATION                              RU      RUS     643
RWANDA                                          RW      RWA     646
ST. HELENA                                      SH      SHN     654
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS                           KN      KNA     659
SAINT LUCIA                                     LC      LCA     662
ST. PIERRE AND MIQUELON                         PM      SPM     666
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES                VC      VCT     670
SAMOA                                           WS      WSM     882
SAN MARINO                                      SM      SMR     674
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE                           ST      STP     678
SAUDI ARABIA                                    SA      SAU     682
SENEGAL                                         SN      SEN     686
SEYCHELLES                                      SC      SYC     690
SIERRA LEONE                                    SL      SLE     694
SINGAPORE                                       SG      SGP     702
SLOVAKIA                                        SK      SVK     703
SLOVENIA                                        SI      SVN
SOLOMON ISLANDS                                 SB      SLB     090
SOMALIA                                         SO      SOM     706
SOUTH AFRICA                                    ZA      ZAF     710
SPAIN                                           ES      ESP     724
SRI LANKA                                       LK      LKA     144
SUDAN                                           SD      SDN     736
SURINAME                                        SR      SUR     740
SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN ISLANDS                  SJ      SJM     744
SWAZILAND                                       SZ      SWZ     748
SWEDEN                                          SE      SWE     752
SWITZERLAND                                     CH      CHE     756
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC                            SY      SYR     760
TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA                       TW      TWN     158
TAJIKISTAN                                      TJ      TJK     762
TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF                    TZ      TZA     834
THAILAND                                        TH      THA     764
TOGO                                            TG      TGO     768
TOKELAU                                         TK      TKL     772
TONGA                                           TO      TON     776
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO                             TT      TTO     780
TUNISIA                                         TN      TUN     788
TURKEY                                          TR      TUR     792
TURKMENISTAN                                    TM      TKM     795
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS                        TC      TCA     796
TUVALU                                          TV      TUV     798
UGANDA                                          UG      UGA     800
UKRAINE                                         UA      UKR     804
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES                            AE      ARE     784
UNITED KINGDOM                                  GB      GBR     826
UNITED STATES                                   US      USA     840
UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS            UM      UMI     581
URUGUAY                                         UY      URY     858
USSR                                            SU      SUN     810
UZBEKISTAN                                      UZ      UZB     860
VANUATU                                         VU      VUT     548
VATICAN CITY STATE (HOLY SEE)                   VA      VAT     336
VENEZUELA                                       VE      VEN     862
VIET NAM                                        VN      VNM     704
VIRGIN ISLANDS (BRITISH)                        VG      VGB     092
VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.)                           VI      VIR     850
WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS                       WF      WLF     876
WESTERN SAHARA                                  EH      ESH     732
YEMEN, REPUBLIC OF                              YE      YEM     887
YUGOSLAVIA                                      YU      YUG     890
ZAIRE                                           ZR      ZAR     180
ZAMBIA                                          ZM      ZMB     894
ZIMBABWE                                        ZW      ZWE     716


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CMC Network Products  Phone: (011-) [phone]
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DK-2650 Hvidovre, DENMARK Internets: designed and built while you wait

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Leibold)
Date: 10 Mar 94 23:08:28 -0500
Subject: BCE Buys More Atlantic Interests
Organization: FidoNet: The Super Continental - North York, Canada


[from Bell News, Bell Ontario, 7 Mar 94]

BCE acquires Bruncor and MT&T shares

BCE, our parent corporation, has increased its stake in two phone
companies in the Atlantic provinces.

BCE now owns 8,902,015 shares of Bruncor Inc. of New Brunswick,
representing approximately 41.04 per cent of Bruncor's issued and
outstanding common shares, and 9,925,564 common shares of Maritime
Telegraph and Telephone Company (MT&T) of Nova Scotia, representing
approximately 35.4 per cent of MT&T's issued and outstanding common
shares.

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Leibold)
Date: 10 Mar 94 23:08:54 -0500
Subject: Mexico Link for Canada Direct
Organization: FidoNet: The Super Continental - North York, Canada


[from Bell News, Bell Ontario 7 Mar 94]

Mexico joins Canada Direct

For Canadians soaking up Mexican rays, calling home just became a
whole lot easier.

Canadian tourists or business people can now use their Calling Card or
Call Me Card, thanks to Telmex's activation on February 16 of Canada
Direct service.

Canada Direct service allows Canadians travelling on foreign soil to
call home with the assistance of Canadian operators. The service
avoids the potential for confusion when dealing with an operator who
has little or no command of English or French.

To call home from Mexico with Canada Direct, callers dial 95 800 010
1990 to connect with a Canadian operator.

With the Calling Card information supplied by the caller, the operator
validates the card and completes the call.

Canada Direct is also available in 87 other countries.

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 11:06:39 -0800
From: Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Clipped Again


In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(A. Padgett Peterson) writes:

> This makes no sense to me. Today there is *no* privacy in phone calls
> so the question must have been worded so as to imply that there is for
> people to believe that Clipper provides *less*.

This is actually something that deserves being addressed.

At the moment, there *is* privacy in phone calls, in the sense that
it's difficult for a (hypothetical) agency of the government to do
complete, automated traffic analysis of any given telephone.  Clipper
will make this possible to an agency that does not mind skirting
inconvenient laws and that can get easy access to most, if not all,
phone traffic in the US.  The NSA has a very good possibility (and has
a history [read {The Puzzle Palace} by James Bamford for details]) of
engaging in such activities, so this is not merely hypothetical.

In any case, I think this has strayed from general telecom topics and
probably belong in comp.society.privacy, comp.risks, and/or talk.politics.
crypto.


Maxime Taksar   KC6ZPS     [e-mail]   PGP key by request

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From: [e-mail] (Jonny Quest)
Subject: MCI Wow It's Hot Hotline
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 18:46:33 GMT


Does anyone know this number?  I saw it a few days ago and lost it.

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From: [e-mail] (Steve Cogorno)
Subject: Re: Prisoner Starts Own 900 Number
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 10:40:26 PST


TELECOM Digest Editor Noted:

> Most hitchikers didn't fare as well with him. Maybe you just weren't
> his type. :)

And what type is that?  I certainly hope that is not driven by homophobia.

Since we are discussing politics here, I would like to point out that
just because he was convicted of murder and imprisoned does not mean
that he shouldn't be able to run a 900 number business.  If people
want to call, that's their prerogative.  How is it different from
Angela Davis (who is a very well respected professor in academic
circles) writing a book while she was a political prisoner?  Both are
telling their versions of the truth, and if you want to hear it, fine.
If you don't, then don't call.


Steve  [e-mail]
#608 Merrill * 200 McLaughlin Drive * Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1015


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Homophobic Response:  Thank you for sharing your
version of the truth with us. To compare Angela Davis and her crimes with
people like John Wayne Gacy and Jeff Dahmer (talk about homophobia! the
one killed homosexuals, the other one ate them ...) is a bit of a stretch
in my opinion but you are entitled to make that comparison if you wish. I
am not certain how Ms. Davis would feel about the comparison.  PAT]

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