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- NorthWestern Syndicate
- Presents:
- THE SYNDICATE REPORT
- Issue No. 3
- Written by The Sensei
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- NOTE: The Syndicate Report is strictly Bell information, and without some
- background, could cause a problem to understand completely.
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- LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (CONTINUED INFO.):
- The Future -- Industry experts predict that the number of Local Area
- Networks will increase from 80,000 in 1986 to over 205,000 by the end of
- this decade. More than 2,000,000 devices will be connected by these LANs.
- If today's trend continues, computer networks will comprise the majority of
- LAN usage.
- The Local Area Networks arena is one of the most volatile in today's
- telecommunications industry. The major issues yet unresolved - transmission
- standards and interconnection, and the continued jockeying among players for
- dominance almost guarntees that LAN's wil be a topic of interest for the
- foreseeable future.
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- BUSINESS/RESIDENCE ACCOUNT TRACKING:
- Prior to Divesture, an AT&T system provided the operating companies
- with a customer-specific analysis tool. MARC, the Market Analysis of Revenue
- and Customers system, offered information on residential customer including
- local and long distance usage, telephone equipment and demographic character-
- istics.
- MARC was dicontinued at Devesture. The three US West IDCs are planning
- to replace MARC with a system that will provide users with information on
- customers' demographics (age, income, household size, etc.), psychographics
- (lifestyle and attitudes) and telecommunicatons usage. The system could be of
- use to product managers, forecasters and anyone with a need for customer--
- specific information.
- The Business Residence Account Tracking system (BRAT) will consist of
- historical information developed by combining usage-sensitive data from CRIS,
- central office data (Customer, Touchtone, etc.) and questionnaire data from a
- sample of Bell customers.
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- INTRACALL:
- IntraCall is a new product from Bell offering customers a home
- intercom system. IntraCal is easy to use and customers will not have to
- add any equipment to put the product in use.
- A customer uses IntraCall by listening for a dial tone then dialing
- their own telephone number. When a busy signal is received the customer hangs
- up the telephone. All telephones on that line will ring back with a
- distinctive ring (two short rings). When at least two telephones are answered
- an intercom path is established. IntraCall is deactivated when all telephones
- have been hung up.
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- IntraCall is currently available in specially equipped cental offices
- in the 5 NorthWestern Bell states. This feature will be more available in
- the near future. Most states Bell is charging 2.00 per month. The local
- business office will have information on availability of IntraCall by
- location.
- There are some features interactions to be aware of when using IntraCall:
- 1) It will to work while using Three-Way Calling.
- 2) It disables Call Waiting (the calling party will
- hear a busy signal.)
- 3) It will not work if Call Forwaring is activated.
- 4) It will not work with lines in a hunt group.
- 5) LMS charges do not apply to IntraCall.
- IntraCall advantages. Let's say you want to call a fellow hacker.
- IntraCall's special distinctive ring signals other hackers to pick up the phone
- nearest them. You can talk a phreak upstairs, a hacker downstairs, or a
- cracker in the garage, all at once if you like. Anywhere you have an extension
- phone an intercom.
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- POTS AND PANS DEVELOPMENTS:
- POTS is a telecommunications industry acronym meaning "Plain Old Tele-
- phone Service." It is now accompanied, N.W.Syndicate has learned recently,
- by PANS, which is "Pretty Advanced New Stuff."...Bell Laboratories patented a
- device that will enable a telephone customer to trace a nuisance call. To
- trace a call, a customer would dial a special code number that causes both the
- called and calling numbers to be transmitted to a local central office or
- police station.
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- QUESTIONS:
- If you come up with any questions on the articles in The Synicate
- Report, please contact me anyway possible. I will be happy to clear up and
- eliminate unwanted confusion.
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- This concludes this Issue No. 3 presented by:
- The Syndicate Report
- Copyright (C) July 30 1986 by The Sensei
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