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- TELECOM Digest Sun, 13 Feb 94 21:44:00 CST Volume 14 : Issue 81
-
- Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
-
- Re: Paging Available on Cellular Phones (Alan Boritz)
- Re: Paging Available on Cellular Phones (Richard A. De Castro)
- Re: Paging Available on Cellular Phones (Steven H. Lichter)
- Re: Harrassing One-Ring Calls (David A. Kaye)
- Re: Harrassing One-Ring Calls (Jack Hamilton)
- Re: Advertising by New York Telephone (Michael Rubin)
- Re: Don't Trust the Phone Company - Part 2 (A. Padgett Peterson)
- Re: Don't Trust The Phone Company (Alan Boritz)
- Re: E-Mail Spying By Employers (Gary Breuckman)
- Re: V&H Report - 15 January 1994 (Clarence Dold)
- Re: Dispelling a Myth From the Past (David A. Kaye)
- Re: TDRs and Wiretaps (jdl@wam.umd.edu)
- Re: Need Info on ISDN Phones (Beverly Taylor)
- Re: Converting 11 Bit Data to 10 (Lars Poulsen)
- Re: Another Vendor Disguises Self as "AT&T" (Tom Coradeschi)
- Re: What is This Number? (Stu Whitmore)
- Re: Telephone Nunbers in France (John R. Levine)
- Re: The Dawn of a New Age (Stephen Goodman)
- Re: Increase Stand-by Time of Mobile Phones (Dan J. Declerck)
- Re: Remote Call Forwarding and Distinctive Ringing (Tasvir Shah)
- Re: Lebanese Get Drunken Phones (Hugh Lagle)
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-
- Subject: Paging Available on Cellular Phones
- From: drharry!aboritz@uunet.UU.NET (Alan Boritz)
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 07:46:38 EST
- Organization: Harry's Place BBS - Mahwah NJ - +1 201 934 0861
-
-
- scol@az.stratus.com (Scott Colbath) writes:
-
- > Bell Atlantic here in Phoenix announced yesterday that they were
- > making available to their cellular phone customers the ability to be
- > pagable on their cell phones. Is this being done anywhere else? It
- > sounds like a good idea. One is able to ditch the pager and just carry
- > a phone. Any comments?
-
- That's nothing new. Just set call-forward-on-no-answer to your pager
- number and you've got the same thing.
-
-
- aboritz%drharry@uunet.uu.net or uunet!drharry!aboritz
- Harry's Place BBS (drharry.UUCP) - Mahwah NJ USA - +1-201-934-0861
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: decastro@netcom.com (Richard A. De Castro)
- Subject: Re: Paging Available on Cellular Phones
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 17:33:07 GMT
-
-
- scol@az.stratus.com (Scott Colbath) writes:
-
- > Bell Atlantic here in Phoenix announced yesterday that they were
- > making available to their cellular phone customers the ability to be
- > pagable on their cell phones. Is this being done anywhere else? It
- > sounds like a good idea. One is able to ditch the pager and just carry
- > a phone. Any comments?
-
- It's a common method for the cellphone providers to increase on-air
- time -- when I checked into similar "offers" here in LA, you were
- charged for the time (in 30-second increments!) for the "page", and of
- course for the response.
-
- No, I still carry the pager.
-
-
- decastro@netcom.com Richard A. De Castro - California, North America, Sol-3
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven H. Lichter)
- Subject: Re: Paging Available on Cellular Phones
- Date: 13 Feb 1994 12:11:10 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
-
-
- I believe PacBell Cellular offers this service, though I find Voice
- Mail to be as good since if I'm not on to answer it then it could not
- have been that important.
-
-
- Sysop: Apple Elite II -=- an Ogg-Net Hub BBS
- (909) 359-5338 12/24/96/14.4 V32/V42bis Via PCP CACOL/12/24
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: dk@crl.com (David A. Kaye)
- Subject: Re: Harrassing One-Ring Calls
- Date: 13 Feb 1994 03:18:36 -0800
- Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest]
-
-
- TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Bill Llewellyn (thinker@
- rahul.net):
-
- > is the poor man's self-help to peace and quiet on the telephone. Oh, I
- > know the ACLU and the Socially Responsible People don't approve of it,
- > but then, I don't approve of them either. PAT]
-
- The ACLU has no policy one way or the other on Caller ID. The ACLU
- concerns itself only with Bill of Rights issues, and more specifically
- First Amendment rights in test cases. In California where Caller ID
- is not in use, rape crisis centers were a driving force among groups
- against Caller ID. They're concerned that (as an example) a woman
- calling to order a pizza could be harrassed by unwanted calls if the
- pizza dude thought her voice was arousing.
-
-
- [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And of course the fact that pizza
- drivers are often (best case scenario) sent to the wrong address as a
- 'joke' on the residents of the place where the driver was sent causing
- the company or driver to waste an order and lose money, or (worst
- case scenario) beaten and robbed of their money and their orders by
- people who lure them to a given address under false pretenses means
- nothing at all; absolutely nothing at all. ACLU lawyers and federal
- judges do not live in a world where those things happen, and they cannot
- imagine them happening, and since they cannot imagine it, therefore it
- does not happen. Simple as that. They ought to join the rest of us in
- Realworld and see how things are. PAT]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
- Subject: Re: Harrassing One-Ring Calls
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 00:23:09 GMT
-
-
- Steven H. Lichter (co057@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
-
- > This happened to my answering machine, but it was still a pain. I sure
- > wish California would wake up and allow full Caller ID and to hell
- > with the little old ladies and rights groups that feel their rights
- > are being violated; what about our rights to know who calls us?
-
- I think you're misrepresenting the position of the people who were
- opposed to Caller IDd in California. I was opposed to it, or at least
- to the way I understood it was to be implemented.
-
- The problem was that it was going to be difficult for callers to turn
- off identification. We wanted a way to turn off Caller ID "permanently"
- (until we reset it), rather than for every call we made. So, for
- example, I could dial *77 (I'm making up this number; I don't know
- what it might be in other states), and my outgoing calls wouldn't
- include the id. If I happened to call a number which didn't accept
- calls from non-id'd numbers, I could dial *78+the number, and that one
- call would have the id. The next call I made would go back to the
- default of not being id'd.
-
- If I wanted to turn id'ing back on, I could dial *87, and the Caller ID
- would always be included, unless I dialed *88+number, which would turn it
- off for that one call. All of these on/off capabilities would be free.
-
- Under this scheme, both parties would have complete and easy control over
- those aspects of caller if that affected them.
-
- That's not what Pac Bell wanted to offer. They said that if it was
- too easy for people to turn off Caller ID, big businesses wouldn't buy
- the identification feature, and it wouldn't be worthwhile for Pac Bell
- to introduce the new service. They decided not to offer it under the
- PUC's terms. (Apparently they felt that many people would opt not to
- be identified.)
-
- So you should lay the blame for the lack on Caller ID in California on
- the phone company's greed, not on the people who felt they have a
- right to privacy.
-
-
- Jack Hamilton USMail: POB 281107 SF CA 94128 USA
- jfh@netcom.com Packet: kd6ttl@w6pw.#nocal.ca.us.na
-
-
- [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Just as your right to to swing your arms
- around ends when your fist reaches my face, likewise your right to
- privacy ends when you cause my telephone to ring. If you want to live
- in your own private little world, no one is stopping you, but when you
- choose to interact with others, how can you sit there and say you have
- the right to approach them or call them anonymously? Where are their
- rights to be left alone? Like with pizza drivers, their rights don't
- seem to matter, eh?
-
- Whenever this Caller-ID pro/con thread starts here, it always seems to
- mushroom and bring me a huge stack of mail. So out of purely convenience
- in editing, I'll save up replies this time around and publish a random
- collection in a few days. To Jack Decker and others who always respond to
- controversial threads with *long* missives in reply and then become very
- indignant when their article is not used promptly on submission or in its
- entireity and go to other newsgroups accusing me of bias and censorship,
- please be forewarned: If you want to speak your piece on Caller-ID pro
- and con, submit it *promptly*, eliminate all or most of the quoted text,
- and realize that probably a dozen other people wrote to say the same
- thing as yourself. In a few days I will publish a batch of them, then we
- will all be sick and tired of reading about it and I'll squash further
- comments for a few months like last time. I'll try to publish a broad
- selection, and seeing as how I favor Caller-ID I'll probably let the anti-
- people have the 'last word' this time around. PAT]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: miker@panix.com (Michael Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Advertising by New York Telephone
- Date: 13 Feb 1994 02:55:27 -0500
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
-
-
- In <telecom14.67.13@eecs.nwu.edu> barmar@Think.COM (Barry Margolin)
- writes:
-
- > In article <telecom14.55.3@eecs.nwu.edu> joseph@c3.crd.ge.com (James
- > Joseph) writes:
-
- >> New York Telephone has been spending truck loads of money advertising
- >> that they are changing their name to NYNEX.
-
- > If they weren't going to make a big deal about it, they wouldn't have
- > bothered changing their names in the first place. The reason they
- > changed the names of the subsidiaries was to change their image.
-
- New York Tel has an image of moronic customer service. The ads say
- things like "we're changing the name, not the service." What in
- heaven kind of image change would that suggest?
-
- > Presumably, the goal of both the name change and the advertising is to
- > increase revenues ...
-
- Most of their revenues are from the captive audience of local subscribers.
-
- I suspect they intend to reduce costs by having fewer operators,
- service reps, etc. shared among subsidiaries; and fewer different
- paper forms for bills and announcements. (Your problem hunting down a
- bad pair in your NYC office building will be handled by somebody in
- low-wage Hogwash, Rhode Island, who's never seen a building taller
- than two stories...) But knowing the public is already boggled by
- scads of previously unknown phone companies, they are widely
- publicizing the name change so as to avoid further customer confusion.
-
-
- Mike Rubin <miker@panix.com>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 02:03:41 -0500
- From: padgett@tccslr.dnet.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson)
- Subject: Re: Don't Trust the Phone Company - Part 2
-
-
- On review, I have noticed that the scenario I proposed relative to the
- Bodines has been used twice in recent years by HollyWood (at least
- that I know of, may be more). In the first a cordless telephone was
- used (do the Bodine's have one?).
-
- 1) Pump Up the Volume (1990)
- 2) In the Line of Fire (1993)
-
- Both times the authorities broke in on the wrong people thanks to ANI.
-
- Personally, I would tend to expect this kind of knowlege/inclination to
- be more likely in Christian Slater fans than those of Clint Eastwood
- (I have seen both so what does that tell you 8*).
-
- Off to the races at Daytona today,
-
-
- Padgett
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Re: Don't Trust The Phone Company
- From: drharry!aboritz@uunet.UU.NET (Alan Boritz)
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 07:32:05 EST
- Organization: Harry's Place BBS - Mahwah NJ - +1 201 934 0861
-
-
- drharry!aboritz@uunet.UU.NET (Alan Boritz) writes:
-
- > Oh, no, exactly the opposite. If I pick up my phone after the first
- > ring I know for a fact that my box will miss the Caller-ID data, so
- > retrieving the last call and dialing it will get me the SECOND to last
- > phone number (since the last is missing).
-
- > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Who said either the victim or her husband
- > picked up the phone during the first ring?
-
- Nobody. That's not something about which a lay person would notice or
- care. If someone were right next to the phone when it rang, they could
- have picked it up before the first ring was completed, completely missing
- the Caller-ID data stream.
-
- > Around here, Caller-ID is delivered *immediatly* following the first ring;
-
- But that's NOT the way it's done HERE. NJ Bell delivers it sometimes
- immediately after the first ring, sometimes as late as during the
- second ring. I had to adjust the answer interval on my mailer system
- to delay modem pickup until after the SECOND ring, since pickup after
- the first ring (even just as the second ring began) USUALLY resulted
- in my Caller-ID box missing the data stream. If I answer my voice
- line, at home or in the office, after the first ring, I will USUALLY
- lose the Caller-ID info.
-
- > had they picked up the phone even two seconds after the first ring
- > stopped but before the second ring began the number shown would have
- > been correct.
-
- No, we can't be sure that it would have been correct. Based upon my
- experience with NJ Bell, I would assume a greater than 50% probability
- that it WASN'T delivered.
-
-
- aboritz%drharry@uunet.uu.net or uunet!drharry!aboritz
- Harry's Place BBS (drharry.UUCP) - Mahwah NJ USA - +1-201-934-0861
-
-
- [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I am curious to know how Caller-ID is
- delivered in the middle of a ringing cycle. If NJ Bell does not deliver
- until after the second ring then that is indeed unfortunate; no one
- should be expected to wait that long before answering the phone if
- they are right next to it when it rings. Anyone else from NJ Bell terri-
- tory care to respond? Is delivery that retarded in arriving there? PAT]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 06:50:53 -0800
- From: puma@netcom.com (Gary Breuckman)
- Subject: Re: E-Mail Spying By Employers
-
-
- In article <telecom14.74.13@eecs.nwu.edu> bill@noller.com (Bill Tighe) writes:
-
- > Email used as evidence!?* How do investigators verify the source of an
- > email message? How do you know that this very post wasn't sent by my
- > evil twin brother Fred?
-
- > Pardon my paranoia but it seems that email messages are easy to fake.
- > Even if you don't send incriminating messages yourself, somebody who
- > wants your job or your head may do it for you.
-
- > Perhaps it is better to avoid email until the security and privacy
- > problems have been solved.
-
- Which is exactly why many people, even if they have Internet access
- through their place of work and can send mail or reply to newsgroups
- from there, often pay for a commercial account.
-
- Myself included.
-
-
- puma@netcom.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: dold@rahul.net (Clarence Dold)
- Subject: Re: V&H Report - 15 January 1994
- Organization: a2i network
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 18:17:59 GMT
-
-
- In article <telecom14.59.1@eecs.nwu.edu> de@moscom.com (David Esan) writes:
-
- > Once a quarter I USED to receive the BellCore V&H tape. Using this
-
- > This is no longer our procedure. The information in FCC #10 is now
-
- Whatsa FCC #10? I would not be adverse to discontinuing my
- subscription to VHDATA, if FCC #10 was a suitable substitute.
-
-
- Clarence A Dold - dold@rahul.net
- - Milpitas (near San Jose) & Napa CA.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: dk@crl.com (David A. Kaye)
- Subject: Re: Dispelling a Myth From the Past
- Date: 13 Feb 1994 15:36:24 -0800
- Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest]
-
-
- Donald E. Kimberlin (0004133373@mcimail.com) wrote:
-
- > cross-subsidization of AT&T's local companies with profits
- > from long distance service to Independent areas was _not_ one of them.
-
- Pre-divestiture there were numerous situations where the local BOCs
- were only partly owned by AT&T, such as Pacific Telephone (now Pacific
- Bell). It was 90% owned by AT&T and publicly traded on the NYSE. If
- any revenues had been mixed between AT&T Long Lines and the local BOC
- you can *bet* that the other 10% stockholders would have *screamed* to
- the Securities and Exchange Commission over it.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: jdl@wam.umd.edu (Jonathan)
- Subject: Re: TDRs and Wiretaps
- Date: 13 Feb 1994 03:29:38 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
-
-
- I read in {Phrack} that it is impossible to tell whether or not there
- is a wiretap on your line without the cooperation of your local
- telephone company. The data from the TDR probably will not be useful
- to you unless you enlist the telephone company's cooperation.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: btaylor@csuchico.edu (Beverly Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Need Info on ISDN Phones
- Date: 13 Feb 1994 05:05:28 GMT
- Organization: California State University, Chico
-
-
- In article <telecom14.71.6@eecs.nwu.edu>, The Network Group <0004526627@
- mcimail.com> wrote:
-
- > I need to know a source for ISDN phonesxxx -- excuse me: voice
- > terminals.
-
- > I have heard that AT&T has a few of these but haven't heard of any
- > other manufacturers such as Northern Telecom or others. Apparently the
- > Northern product for Meridian Digital Centrex is not an ISDN phone.
-
- We have used TelRad, Fujitsu, and AT&T ISDN sets. They're all used to
- run on an AT&T 5ESS. We're very satisfied with all of them and have
- only found these three will work with our CO switch.
-
-
- Bev Taylor Communications Services
- California State University, Chico
- btaylor@csuchico.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 11:29:00 +0100
- From: lars@eskimo.CPH.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen)
- Subject: Re: Converting 11 Bit Data to 10
- Organization: CMC Network Products, Copenhagen DENMARK
-
-
- In article <telecom14.75.9@eecs.nwu.edu>, widg00@wrksun1.wrk.dupont.com
- writes:
-
- > Does anyone know of a little black box that can convert the following:
- > 1 Start bit, 8 Data bits, 1 Parity bit, 1 Stop bit, ie eleven bit data
- > to 1 Start bit, 8 Data bits, 1 Stop bit, ie eight and no parity (10
- > bits total).
-
- The eleven bit data format was used by Wang Labs in their Series 2200
- systems. I always assumed that this was in order to prevent customers
- from supplementing the system with less expensive 3rd party terminals.
-
- Ask Wang users ... or check in computer supply houses for specialty
- products for the Wang aftermarket.
-
-
- Lars Poulsen Internet E-mail: lars@CMC.COM
- CMC Network Products Phone: (011-) +45-31 49 81 08
- Hvidovre Strandvej 72 B Telefax: +45-31 49 83 08
- DK-2650 Hvidovre, DENMARK Internets: designed and built while you wait
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
- Subject: Re: Another Vendor Disguises Self as "AT&T"
- Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 20:55:47 GMT
-
-
- drharry!aboritz@uunet.UU.NET (Alan Boritz) writes:
-
- > This must be the week for phone scams in New Jersey. ;) I received
- > several calls from a company identifying itself as "Network Services
- > of AT&T." They pitched a software-defined network using AT&T that
- > features flat rates of .18/minute over five mileage bands (wow),
- > compared to a much better rate we presently get from AT&T. The fax I
- > received, though, showed a Baltimore address and phone number and the
- > pitch then stated "utilizing the AT&T long distance network." In
- > other words, just another pushy reseller mis-representing themselves.
-
- My motorcycle dealer (Dave Cushing at Touch of Class BMW in Stewartsville,
- NJ) got a call from them too. When he pushed them on the ATT issue,
- asking them if there _were_ in fact ATT, they hung up on him. Better
- to find some other sucker, since he obviously wasn't gettng hooked ...
-
-
- tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil <+> DoD#413
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 20:28:08 -0800
- From: whitmore@tahoma.cwu.edu (Rattlesnake Stu)
- Subject: Re: What is This Number?
- Organization: Central Washington University
-
-
- carlene lanham (cl@nde.unl.edu) wrote:
-
- > And, I've heard that some exchanges have a number that you call and it
- > will repeat back to you your own phone number. Does anyone know
- > anything about this number? What might it be?
-
- I seem to recall a semi-recent issue of {2600} (The Hacker Quarterly)
- listed a number one could call with a CallerID-blocked line and have
- one's phone number read back. As I remember, it was to demonstrate
- the inefficacy of blocking one's number when dialing a CallerID
- subscriber. I couldn't find it in the issue I have sitting here, and
- don't have any back issues handy, so it might take some looking. (And
- it may have been a 1-900 type number, as I think there was some type
- of cost associated with it. I didn't pay much attention at the time;
- perhaps I should have!) Anyway, if you can find a local collection of
- {2600}, you may be able to find it. (And {2600} is usually worth a
- grin or two anyway!)
-
-
- stuart whitmore@tahoma.cwu.edu
-
-
- [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, they also have a newsgroup, I
- understand, called 'alt.2600', and from what I have been told, it is
- a really wide open arena for hackerphreaks to do their thing and post
- their messages. I don't know how many sites carry it. And bear in
- mind with any special services of the 700/800/900/976 variety, all
- bets are off where ID-blocking is concerned. You cannot block your
- number from those people even though what they get is technically
- ANI rather than Caller-ID. Yes there is a difference but the one is
- frequently -- almost always, I would say -- as good as the other. PAT]
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 13:34:00 EST
- From: johnl@iecc.com (John R Levine)
- Subject: Re: Telephone Nunbers in France
- Organization: I.E.C.C., Cambridge, Mass.
-
-
- > Sure, now they are still really lucky to enjoy a network that has
- > evolved in 15 years from one of the most backward to one of the most
- > advanced in the world. There must be some mysterious mechanism, beyond
- > competition, ...
-
- Of course there was. The French government, Telecom's owner, told
- them to build a phone system that works, so they did. French phones
- are good, but they aren't cheap.
-
-
- Regards,
-
- John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, jlevine@delphi.com, 1037498@mcimail.com
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 08:52:00 EST
- From: Stephen Goodman <0003945654@mcimail.com>
- Subject: Re: The Dawn of a New Age
-
-
- In TELECOM Digest #69 Bill Halverson did not know who the author of
- the article was. Thanks to Les Johnson (LES@ULYSSES.ATT.COM) I found
- out the author:
-
- Michael Schrage, columnist for the {Los Angeles Times}.
-
- The article had been floating around Cyberspace when I got it and the
- author's name had been deleted.
-
-
- Steve G 3945654@MCIMAIL.COM
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: declrckd@rtsg.mot.com (Dan J. Declerck)
- Subject: Re: Increase Stand-by Time of Mobile Phones
- Date: 13 Feb 1994 17:24:20 GMT
- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
-
-
- In article <telecom14.64.9@eecs.nwu.edu>, Bill Mayhew <wtm@uhura.neoucom.
- edu> wrote:
-
- > I am pretty sure that pocket type cellular phones here in the US use a
- > power saving feature that cycles the reciever off and on while the
- > unit is in standby mode. It seems to take a second or two for my
- > Motorola pocket phone to decide it should ring. The cellular paging
- > channel does send the page out to the mobile several times in a row,
- > so there is a reasonable chance of catching the page even if the
- > mobile unit were to cycle its receiver.
-
- > I'm not familiar with the way GSM phones in other parts of the world
- > work, so there might be a reason they need to stay on continuously.
-
- The GSM spec allows a lengthy (2 minute ?) period to allow the Mobile
- Station to power down segments of it's internal parts.
-
-
- Dan DeClerck EMAIL: declrckd@rtsg.mot.com Motorola Cellular APD
-
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-
- From: shah@aslslc44.asl.dl.nec.com (Tasvir Shah)
- Subject: Re: Remote Call Forwarding and Distinctive Ringing
- Organization: NEC America, Inc Irving TX
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 16:28:01 GMT
-
-
- In article <telecom14.58.14@eecs.nwu.edu> topolski@kaiwan.com (Robb
- Topolski) writes:
-
- > QUESTION: If a caller (from 555-1133) dials my Remote Call Forwarding
- > number (555-9922) which is forwarded to my home, which number is
- > evaluated by Distinctive Ringing?
-
- ANSWER: The original calling number 555-1133 is (should be) evaluated for
- Distinctive Ringing.
-
-
- tasvir
-
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-
- From: lagle@aur.alcatel.com (H. Lagle)
- Subject: Re: Lebanese Get Drunken Phones
- Date: 13 Feb 1994 16:47:00 GMT
- Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC
- Reply-To: lagle@aur.alcatel.com
-
-
- In article 10@eecs.nwu.edu, lincmad@netcom.com (Linc Madison) writes:
-
- > In article <telecom14.58.7@eecs.nwu.edu> Alex Cena wrote:
-
- >> The Lebanese government has approved contracts to buy one million
- >> telephone lines from Alcatel Alsthom NV, Siemens AG and AB L.M. Ericsson.
- ^^^^^^^
- > Well, here in Oakland, "Alcatel" is a liquor store (near the corner of
- > ALCAtraz and TELegraph), so I can't get away from images of phone
- > lines arriving by the keg ...
-
- Someone here has a picture of that liquor store. I was wondering where
- it was and where the name came from.
-
-
- Hugh Lagle, Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh, NC USA
- Internet: lagle@aur.alcatel.com *** Individualists Unite ***
-
-
- [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, so now you know the truth, and
- I hope it has set you free -- all this time you have been employed by
- the subsidiary of a west coast gin mill and didn't know it. When
- people ask you what that picture is, you can tell them with pride that
- it is the headquarters office of your parent company! :) Cheers! PAT]
-
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