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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:39:10 -0500
From: Phillip.Dampier@f228.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Phillip Dampier)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: CWA/US West Reach Agreement
Reply-To: phil@rochgte.fidonet.org
Organization: TELECOM Digest
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 639, Message 2 of 14

   DENVER (AP) -- A tentative contract between U S West and unions
representing more than 37,000 phone company workers in 14 states left
Bell Atlantic the only Baby Bell without an agreement Monday.

   Negotiators for U S West and two unions worked past a strike
deadline of midnight Saturday and announced the agreement Sunday
night.

   A ratification vote by the Communications Workers of America and
the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is expected to
take two to three weeks.

   Informal talks with Bell Atlantic continued Monday in Washington,
said company spokesman Ken Pitt. Philadelphia-based Bell Atlantic
serves customers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia,
Maryland, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.

   U S West said its pact provides for a pay raise of five percent this
year and three percent in each of the following two years.

   "We're pleased to reach an agreement with the CWA that is
beneficial to our employees, the company, the union and our
investors," said Gary Ames, president and chief executive of U S West
Communications.

   "The workers are very happy for the most part. They're glad they
don't have to strike," said Kevin Mulligan, vice president of the
Denver local of the CWA, which represents nearly all the workers
involved.

   The unions represent 37,662 U S West directory-assistance and
long-distance operators, service representatives, installers and
repair technicians. They had sought a 12 percent increase over three
years.

   U S West operates in Washington state, Oregon, Montana, Idaho,
North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska,
Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

   Tentative agreements were announced last week by four other
regional phone companies created by the 1984 breakup of American
Telephone & Telegraph Co.: Ameritech Corp., BellSouth, Southwestern
Bell and Pacific Telesis.

   The seventh Baby Bell, NYNEX, which serves New York and New
England, is operating under an agreement in effect until 1995.
From: sbrack@jupiter.cse.UTOLEDO.edu (Steven S. Brack)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Getting Ohio Bell to Fix my Line Noise
Date: 16 Aug 92 07:27:09 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 635, Message 4 of 7


	I've had Ohio Bell out here twice to get rid of the line noise
problem I'm having.  The noise comes in short bursts, and almost
always appears as the same set of characters.

	A sample:  "}i{_~r}i}i}i{_}i

	Noise is much worse during the day, and diminishes at night.
The line is quiet to the ear.  The oddest thing is that when I call a
BBS in my own CO, there is hardly, if ever, any noise.  Only when I
call other COs is noise a problem.  Even long distance isn't noisy.

	Ohio Bell checks the line and says everything's fine.  THe
most I've been able to get them to do is turn it over to the CO techs
to fix.  It hasn't helped.

	What do I do now?
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 14:19:59 EDT
From: Tom Libert <libert@citi.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: NPA/NXX Data Source Wanted
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 638, Message 12 of 12

I'm looking for a (hopefully low-cost) source for NPA/NXX numbers
(i.e.  telephone area codes and exchanges).  I have information on
Bellcore V&H files, which currently may not be redistributed without
paying hefty licensing fees.  However, I have also heard about
something called "NECA 4" and "NECA 10" tariffs which are reportedly in
the public domain, and thus freely redistributable.  I've also been
told that "NECA" may stand for something like "North American Exchange
Association" (I know the acronym doesn't match the name...)  I'd really
appreciate it if anyone could shed some light on this.  I plan to
provide the data to the Internet through the Geographic Name Service.

Please reply directly to me, and thanks.


Tom Libert   Center for Information Technology Integration
University of Michigan   libert@citi.umich.edu  (313) 936-0827
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: New 900 MHz Cordless Phone
Date: 15 Aug 92 15:14:01 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 631, Message 12 of 13

While they should have left the 'encryption' word out, it is true that
spread spectrum [was|is] used by the military because it is inherently
more secure than plain old carrier-based transmissions.  Also, maybe
they actually are putting some sort of encryption chip in it so that
it would be difficult to descramble without knowing the setting on a
DIP switch or something.


David Lemson                                                 (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant  / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                 UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
NeXTMail accepted                                   BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Date: Wednesday, 19 Aug 1992 19:23:01 EDT
From: GHADSAL@AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: How to Trigger a Pager From a Modem
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 645, Message 14 of 17

PC, Mac, UNIX, etc platforms for IXO Protocols:
=================================================

Metriplex
Cambridge, Mass.
Pres:  Steve Stuckman

I make no claims towards or for the product other than its *good* and
I would recommend it.


Guy Hadsall
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:53:39 GMT
From: ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Multiple Terminating Numbers For Single 1-800?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 640, Message 5 of 8

Simple quick question: do the long distance carriers in the US have
the capability to offer a single 1-800 number that terminates to
multiple phone numbers strewn throughout the US -- the number that a
caller would be terminated to would be based on their geographic
calling location.


Phil Trubey                   | Internet: ptrubey@netcom.com
Systemhouse Inc.              | Voice:    613-834-6919
                              | Fax:      613-236-2043


[Moderator's Note: Yes indeed, they do. At least several (most, all?)
can configure it that way, although obviously it is more expensive
than a single termination style 800 number. Likewise, the 950 prefix
is available in many areas to accomplish the same thing.   PAT]
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 13:14:08 GMT
From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Monitoring Dialtone for Voicemail Indicator
Organization: SwitchView Inc., Waterloo, Ontario
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 653, Message 2 of 11

In article <telecom12.637.5@eecs.nwu.edu> add@philabs.philips.com
(Aninda V. Dasgupta) writes:

> At work we have a Meridian-1 PBX system with Voicemail facilities.
> The problem is that if I have a new Voicemail message I have no way of
> finding out unless I lift the handset.  If I have any message(s) I get
> a breaking dialtone, otherwise a normal one.  I wish to find a
> solution so that I can see a little lamp on my phoneset glow when I
> have messages.

Simple, change your class of service to visual message waiting!

Depending on how old your switch is you may or may not need an
additional power supply for the message waiting lamps.  The telephones
are common and cheap.  Or you can just add the proper neon lamp to
your current set.


Vance Shipley  vances@xenitec.on.ca vances@ltg.uucp  ..uunet.ca!xenitec!vances
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 9:33:27 EDT
From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@BRL.MIL>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Somalia Phones Down
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 641, Message 8 of 13

News article referring to the Somalia relief effort said that basic
services were down.  Among other things, it said that the telephone
system was destroyed.


[Moderator's Note: Yes, it is true. Almost entirely wiped out.  :(  PAT]
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:06:28 +0100
From: rickie@trickie.uucp (Richard Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Pacific Bell Ads for CLASS
Organization: TELECOM Digest
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 628, Message 10 of 11

> Pac Bell's advertising for CLASS services is really starting to get to
> me.  I just heard an ad that said, "Priority Ringing - another new
> idea from Pacific Bell." How about, "another new idea *for* Pacific
> Bell"?  Unfortunately, the general public does not know that CLASS
> services have been available in states other than CA for years ...

Is this not called deceptive advertising?  Are there not laws in
California that prohibit false advertising?

> While they're so full of new ideas, why doesn't Pac Bell offer
> Ringmate/Ringmaster (we have no name for it since it's not offered)?

What about "Teen Ring" NT(tm)? A special coded ring to distinguish the
teenagers calls from the regular households.


Richard Nash     	Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6K 0E8
UUCP:                   trickie!rickie@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Amatuer Radio Packet:   VE6BON @ VE6MC.AB.CAN.NA 
                        VE6BON.ampr.org [44.135.147.206]
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:37:21 GMT
From: mdw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (mark.d.wuest)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Deterioration of POTS
Organization: AT&T
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 649, Message 1 of 8

I think another side effect of the break-up is the shift away from
pure research at Bellcore.  They're laying off more people as I type.
Bell Labs is rumored to be headed toward a market-driven approach to
development (but *that* rumor's been flying around for awhile now ...).
Who know what the end result will be?

OTOH, as American business (hopefully) shifts more toward long-term
goals (thinking in terms of 10 years instead of quarters), the
"market" may demand more pure research.  Most anyone would agree that
Japan is doing more pure research now than ever before ...


Mark Wuest       *MY* opinions, not AT&T's!!
mark.wuest@att.com    mdw@cheshire.att.com (NeXT Mail)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:49:52 +0200
From: alfredo@quickt2.it12.bull.it (Alfredo Cotroneo)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Internet Access in Italy
Organization: TELECOM Digest
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 640, Message 4 of 8

Does anybody know how to get possibly_free Internet (email, news, ftp,
etc.)  access via dialup lines from Italy?  (or from any other
location in Europe? e.g. Germany, Switzerland, ...)

Thanks,


Alfredo E. Cotroneo     Milano, Italy   email: a.cotroneo@it12.bull.it
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 02:30:23 GMT
From: sasbge@unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: CIDCO CID unit instructions needed
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 634, Message 3 of 12

I just received my Caller ID box from Hello Direct.  Unfortunately,
the HD Inc. folks were so concerned about filling my back order that
they failed to include the owner's manual!  Now I'm all set but
completely in the dark.  I have a CIDCO Caller ID box, Model
SA-60A-01.  It has 60 call memory and runs off a 9 volt battery or an
optional AC adapter.  The "feature" list suggests that an "Owner's
guide" is inside, but it's not.

I called Hello Direct and they apologized and promised to ship out the
manual as soon as they got some in. =-( According to the box, this
unit will work with either CND or CNAM services.  If someone out there
on the net has one of these beasts, please send me some quick pointers
to at least get this thing working.

The box itself has two RJ11 jacks, a power jack and three push buttons
marked "Delete" and << Review >> (back and forward).  It has an LCD
screen that, according to the box, is contrast adjustable.  I can tell
by inserting the battery, that the unit has a clock and date display
along with the phone number, person's name and call position number.
The unit is small, about the size of a pocket calculator.

Best I can determine, it's programmable.  Most probably via DTMF key
sequences with the attached phone set.  This is only a guess.  Anyone
who know, please tell me what's really the truth!

Any help would be most appreciated.  Email your responses to me and if
you want to know what information I receive, email and I will forward
the info to you as well.  Thanks in advance.


Gantt Edmiston   QA Host Systems, V416 x6091   
SASnet: <sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com>
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Cellular Telephone Eavesdropping Scandal in Minnesota
Date: 22 Aug 92 13:30:59 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 652, Message 3 of 13

In article <telecom12.647.5@eecs.nwu.edu> jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell
(KD4CQY)) writes:

> We had a interesting case here in Virginia where somethin similar
> occured with the Governor, and the person who intercepted, and
> recorded, and then disclosed Cellular communications was convicted; I
> forget what he was sentenced for.

He was sentenced under the communication act of 1934.  He was not
sentenced for any violation of the ECPA, which I found quite
interesting.  The ECPA was specifically enacted for such instances,
but no one has yet been convicted (or even accused) under the law.  I
suspect this is because the law is too weak to be useful.  You can
thank your legislators for passing another worthless law that just
takes up space on the books.


scott
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 19:13:54 PDT
From: rah@btr.com (Richard A Hyde  rah@btr.com)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: How to Trigger a Pager From a Modem
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA.
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 632, Message 5 of 13

I have a program that I wrote doing this at work.  I use a Macintosh
to periodically dial up and assess the health of a mainframe computer.
Should the program detect anything wrong, it dials a series of pager
numbers, pauses a bit for the pager beep-beep-beep prompt to
complete,] and then sends a ten digit Touch-Tone(tm) code down the
line.

The recipient of the page then looks up the code to determine what
should be done to correct the problem.

No problem.  It works the same as if you dialed the pager number from
your phone.


Richard Hyde   RaH@btr.com
From: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Internet Access in Italy
Date: 22 Aug 92 22:35:35 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 651, Message 5 of 7

In a recent Telecom Digest alfredo@quickt2.it12.bull.it (Alfredo
Cotroneo) writes:

> Does anybody know how to get possibly_free Internet (email, news,
> ftp, etc.)  access via dialup lines from Italy?  (or from any other
> location in Europe? e.g. Germany, Switzerland, ...)

Since you requested the Internet Radio Journal from me, a month ago,
every attempt at e-mail to you has bounced.  I am only using this
forum because all else has failed.  If you have a diferent address,
write to me at wdp@airwaves.chi.il.us and I will start sending your
Broadcasting digests.


William Pfeiffer
Moderator - rec.radio.broadcasting - Internet Radio Journal
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 16:58:54 EST
From: Bill Berbenich <bill@eedsp.gatech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Area Code Changes in Georgia?
Reply-To: bill@eedsp.gatech.edu
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 628, Message 2 of 11

The interim, permissive dialing period, which began on May 3 ended on
August 3.  During this time, calls to either numbers in 706 or 404
could be dialed using either area code.

The "Metropolitan Atlanta local calling area" retains AC 404.  All
other numbers in what was 404 are now in 706.  There are a few
disputed areas where the residents have expressed a desire to "keep"
404 and for which hearings are being held by the state PSC.  Until the
matter is decided for those areas, those areas ONLY can be reached
using either 404 or 706.

The information contained in this posting have been culled from local
newspapers and from the Atlanta white pages phone book.


Bill Berbenich, School of EE, DSP Lab   Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 
uucp: ...!{backbones}!gatech!eedsp!bill   Internet: bill@eedsp.gatech.edu
From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: New 900 MHz Cordless Phone
Date: 15 Aug 92 05:36:07 GMT
Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 631, Message 11 of 13

mailrus!gatech!eecom!wberbeni@uunet.UU.NET (W. Berbenich) writes:

> In article <telecom12.613.1@eecs.nwu.edu> jongsma@esseye.si.com (Ken
> Jongsma) writes:

>> In the August 3rd {Business Week}...

>> Cincinnati Microwave, Inc. [the radar detector people] figures
>> executives and consumers will pay a small premium for cordless
>> privacy. The company has developed a phone, to be marketed in October
>> by its Escort division for about $300, that thwarts eavesdroppers with
>> "spread spectrum" technology, which is similar to the encryption
>> method that the military uses in secure radios. The signals between

> I believe there may be a misstatement of fact in the BW piece.  Is
> there anyone who believes that spread-spectrum is a form of cipher or
> encryption?  I am quite sure that it isn't.  The quotation above is
> therefore a bit misleading.

Since they *specificly* mentioned needing circuitry to keep the phones
in synch, it sounds like they *are* encrypting it. The method is that
the "key" required to receive things is the "pattern" of channel
hopping used. Without this, you'll get fractions of a second of audio
on any given channel, and you will have great difficulty seperating
this from static or other calls made by phones with a different key.

As a bonus, this tends to give noise immunity *and* allow more phones
to work in the same bandwidth. *If* they have a decent keyspace
they'll be relatively secure. The miltary uses the same technology.
I'd think that these merely have fewer channels and simpler "keys".
It's not like they have to redesign it much ... :-)


Leonard Erickson		      leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
CIS: [70465,203]			 70465.203@compuserve.com
FIDO:   1:105/51	 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
(The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 14:26:53 +0200
From: tholome@bangalore.esf.de
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Phones in Germany
Organization: ESF Headquarters, Berlin, FRG
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 647, Message 4 of 11

Since I got phone service in Germany at the beginning of the year, I
thought I'd follow-up on this one...

Christopher Lott AGSE <lott@informatik.uni-kl.de> writes:

> We placed the order in person at the phone store, and three weeks
> later a fella arrived with our phone.  This was apparently fairly
> quick.

I also placed the order in person at the phone store, and four MONTHS
later a fella arrived. Maybe that's because the person renting the
apartment before me didn't have the phone, therefore it wasn't just a
matter of turning the phone on. He indeed had to go down to the cellar
to find out where my line was arriving and to hook it up to my
appartment. But no wires had to be run, nothing. It took the guy
around 20 minutes to do the job, including tests and everything.

> They make no distinction between touch-tone and pulse dialing, as far
> as I know.  Our phone had to be told to send tone, and the switch
> understands it fine, but I don't think that I requested it specially.

Well, here, it is a little bit different: they don't even know about
touch-tone ...

Now, maybe you think I leave in one of those remote places where
progress just never arrives, but in fact, this all takes place in
Berlin ...

I've been told (and I'm ready to believe it) that the German phone
company has enough trouble trying to unify both telephone networks in
Berlin (that is, by the way, done, now) ...

So, after hearing two quite different stories, can anynody tell us
what the AVERAGE situation is, in Germany? Is it mine or
Christopher's?


Eric Tholome     ESF Headquarters            internet: tholome@esf.de
                 Hohenzollerndamm 152        UUCP:     tholome@esf.uucp
                 D-1000 Berlin 33            Ph.:      +49 30 82 09 03 25
                             Germany         Fax:      +49 30 82 09 03 19
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 15:45:19 GMT
From: add@philabs.philips.com (Aninda V. Dasgupta)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Monitoring Dialtone for Voicemail Indicator
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff, New York
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 637, Message 5 of 7

At work we have a Meridian-1 PBX system with Voicemail facilities.
The problem is that if I have a new Voicemail message I have no way of
finding out unless I lift the handset.  If I have any message(s) I get
a breaking dialtone, otherwise a normal one.  I wish to find a
solution so that I can see a little lamp on my phoneset glow when I
have messages.

One obvious solution would be to rig up a circuit which periodically
goes off hook and a one-shot gets triggered in case of a breaking
dialtone.  However, if everybody (there are 300 of us at these labs.)
did that then the PBX could potentially run out of lines and give
delayed dialtone to "real" users.

My questions to netfolk/telecom-gurus is :

Is this really such a whacky solution?  I mean, if my circuit went off
hook once every two minutes to monitor the dialtone, would that create
a huge problem for the PBX when everybody had such a device?  What
might be a better interval to monitor the dialtone? Is there any other
way to monitor the break in dialtone voltage without going off hook?
If so, where can I get a good reference/source for such information
(about the four wires that come into my phoneset?)  Any help will be
greatly appreciated, by me and all my co-workers.


Thanks much.

Aninda DasGupta   (add@philabs.philips.com)
Ph : (914) 945-6071    Fax : (914) 945-6552
Philips (No, we don't produce Gas, we make lightbulbs) Labs.
345 Scarborough Road\n  Briarcliff Manor\n NY 10510