TELECOM Digest Fri, 17 Jun 94 11:18:00 CDT Volume 14 : Issue 294 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Foreign Country Calling Card Access Numbers (consult@hawaii.edu) Bell Atlantic's Full Service Network (Eric Rabe) IXC's and InterLATA CID (Greg Monti) Re: Pointers Wanted to TDD Specifications Please (ssatchell@bix.com) Re: More Sneaky MCI Marketing (Stuart Whitmore) Re: Nine Track IBM Standard Labels (Wm. Randolph U Franklin) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and GEnie. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. Subscriptions are available at no charge to qualified organizations and individual readers. 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Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: consult@hawaii.edu (Consult) Subject: Foreign Country Calling Card Access Numbers Date: 17 Jun 94 01:28:28 HST Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa FOREIGN COUNTRY CALLING CARD ACCESS NUMBERS This is a list of phone numbers to use from foreign countries when you want to place an international call back to the USA or, in certain cases, to another country and have the call billed to your calling card. Extra service charges above the actual long distance rate apply and in some cases vary from country to country. Use of AT&T's USA DIRECT, MCI's WorldPhone, and US Sprint's Sprint Express must be made with each company's respective calling card only (ie AT&T's USA DIRECT will not accept Sprint's FonCard). AT&T's USA DIRECT may take your local BOC's calling card as well. This would be a calling card issued by your local telephone service provider. I make no guarantees as to the accuracy of this list. Changes in service do occur, and typographical errors may be present. Data for this list was obtained from an AT&T USA DIRECT wallet card dated April 1990, a MCI WorldPhone brochure dated 1994, and a US Sprint pocket guide I received in November 1993; so the data for AT&T's USA DIRECT as listed here is severely out of date and lack many countries where service has since been added. AT&T MCI US Sprint USA DIRECT (R) WorldPhone (R) Sprint Express (SM) ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- American Samoa 633-2624(633-2MCI) Antigua #2 (cardphones only) Argentina 001-800-200-1111 001-800-333-111% 001-800-777-1111 Aruba 800-1011 Australia 0014-881-001 008-5511-11! to 0014-881-877 use OPTUS @ 1-800-881-100! to use TELSTRA @ Austria 022-903-011$ 022-903-012$! 022-903-014 Bahamas 1-800-872-2881& 1-800-624-1000 Bahrain 800-001 800-002 Belgium 11-0010$ 078-11-00-12$! 078-11-0014$ Bermuda 1-800-623-0484+ 1-800-623-0877$ Bolivia 0-800-2222$ Brazil 000-8010 000-8012 000-8016 Canada 1-800-888-8000! Cayman Islands 1872 1-MCI(1-624) Chile 00*-0312 00*-0316! 00*0317 China 108-12++! Colombia 980-11-0010+ 980-16-0001! 980-13-0010 Costa Rica 114$ 162$ 163$ Cyprus 080-90000$ Czech and Slovak 00-420-00101 00-42-000112! Denmark 8001-0010$ 8001-0022$! 8001-0877$ Dominican Republic 1-800-872-2881 1-800-751-6624 1-800-751-7877$ Ecuador 170 171 Egypt 355-5770$!(02 first outside Cairo) El Salvador 195$ 191$ Finland 9800-100-10$ 9800-102-80$! 9800-1-0284$ France 19*-0011$ 19*-00-19$! 19*0087$ Gambia 001-199-220-0010$ 00-1-99$ Germany 0130-0010 0130-0012! 0130-0013$ Greece 00-800-1311$ 00-800-1211$! Grenada 872+ 1-800-624-8721+ Guam 018-872+ 950-1022! Guatemala 190 189$ 195$ Haiti 001-800-444-1234+! Honduras 001-800-674-7000+ Hong Kong 008-1111$ 800-1121! 008-1877 011 to call other 011 to call other than USA than USA Hungary 00*-36-0111$ 00*-800-01411$! 00*800-01-877$ Iceland 999-002$ India 000-127++! Indonesia 00-801-10 001-801-11$! 00-801-15 Iran Special phones+ Ireland 1-800-55-1001! 1-800-55-2001$ Israel 177-150-2727! 177-102-2727$ Italy 172-1011$ 172-1022$! 172-1877$ Jamaica 0-800-872-2881+ 800-674-7000 Japan 0039-111$ 0039-121$ to 0066-55-877$ to use KDD @ use IDC 0066-55-121$ to 0039-131$ to use IDC @ use KDD 0055$ to call other than USA Kenya 080011++ Korea 009-11 009-14! to 009-16$ use KT @ 0039-12! to use DACOM @ 03 then "*" from phone booths!+ 550-2255! from military bases Kuwait 800-MCI(800-624) Lebanon 600-624! 425-036+! (add 01 outside Beirut) Liberia 797-797 Liechtenstein 155-0222$! 155-9777 Luxembourg 0800-0112 Macau 0800-111 0800-131 Malaysia 800-0012$! 800-0016$ Mexico 95-800-674-7000 LADATEL phones only, rate varies Monaco 19*-00-19$! 19*0087 Netherlands 06*-022-9111$ 06-022-91-22$! 06*022-9119 Neth/Antil. 001-800-872-2881 001-800-950-1022!+ New Zealand 000-911 000-912 000-999 Nicaragua 166! (dial 02 1st outside Managua) Norway 050-12-011$ 800-19912$! 050-12-877$ Panama 109 108 2810-108 from military bases Paraguay 008-11-800+ Peru ##0+ 001-190 (dial 196+ 190 1st outside Lima) Philippines 105-11+$ 105-14$! to use PLDT @ 1026-12$! to use PHILCOM Poland 0*-01-04-800-222! Portugal 05-017-1234! 05017-1-877 Puerto Rico 1-800-888-8000! Qatar 0800-012-77!% Russia 8*10-800-497-7222$!+ Saipan 950-1022+! San Marino 172-1022$! 172-1877$ Saudi Arabia 1-800-11 Singapore 800-0011$ 8000-112-112 800-0877$ South Africa 0800-99-0011! Spain 900-99-0014! 900-99-0013 St. Kitts 1-800-872-2881 Sweden 020-795-611$ 020-795-922$! 020-799-011$ Switzerland 046-05-0011$ 155-0222$! 155-9777 Syria 0800! Taiwan 0080-13-4567$! 0080-14-0877 on special phones, press Sprint Thailand 001-999-1-2001% Trinidad & Tobago Special phones Turkey 00-8001-1177$ Ukraine 8*10-013+ United Arab Emirates 800-111 United Kingdom 0800-89-0011 0800-89-0222! to 0800-89-0877 use BT 0500-800-800 to 0500-89-0222! to call other than US use MERCURY 0500-800-800! to call other than US Uruguay 00-0410$ 000-412 U.S. Virgin Isles 1-800-888-8000! Vatican City 172-1022 172-1877$ Venezuela 800-1114-0$+ 800-1111-0 KEY TO SYMBOLS -------------- $ - Public phones require coin or card + - Limited availability ++ - Available in major cities * - Wait for second dialtone at this point @ - International communications carrier ! - Country-to-country calling available. May not be available to/from all international locations. Certain restrictions apply. % - Not available from public payphones # - Press # key on telephone ------------------------------ From: bellatl@ba.com (Eric Rabe) Subject: Bell Atlantic's Full Service Network Date: 16 Jun 1994 20:50:32 GMT We thought that Internet users would be interested in the following News Release outlining our filing with the FCC to provide a full service network. Further information regarding this filing, including maps of the deployment areas are available at ba.com via anonymous FTP and gopher . Eric Rabe Bell Atlantic | Internet: rabe@ba.com NEWS RELEASE *********************************************************** ***********************************************************Bell Atlantic June 16, 1994 Shannon Fioravanti 703-974-5455 Joan Rasmussen 703-974-8815 *************************************************************************** * BELL ATLANTIC SEEKS FCC APPROVAL * * FOR CONSTRUCTION OF FULL SERVICE * * IN SIX METROPOLITAN AREAS * *************************************************************************** Washington, D.C. -- Bell Atlantic today detailed the first neighborhoods in six major markets where the company will begin building its video dial tone communications network. The plans were provided in an application for a construction permit, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires under section 214 of the FCC code. "We're committed to providing our customers the advanced video and interactive multimedia services they want, as well as the reliable Bell Atlantic phone service they have come to expect," said Larry Babbio, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Bell Atlantic. "Our network will offer customers a wide array of entertainment and information choices. We expect these services to be competitive, and we're ready to take on the cable companies to win in the marketplace." On May 19, Bell Atlantic announced it would build the Bell Atlantic network starting with deployment in six urban and suburban areas in the mid-Atlantic region that is Bell Atlantic's telephone territory. Those areas are: northern New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia/Delaware Valley, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Hampton Roads, Virginia. Today's FCC filing is an essential step in deploying the video dial tone system that will bring advanced entertainment and information services to Bell Atlantic's customers. "This filing is a vote of confidence in FCC Chairman Reed Hundt's commitment to streamlining the approval process of these 214 applications," said Edward Young, Bell Atlantic vice president and associate general counsel. "We anticipate beginning construction of the Bell Atlantic network as soon as we have the commission's approval." The filing proposes an innovative approach to addressing public interest concerns identified by Congress and the FCC. Bell Atlantic announced a "will carry" proposal, a voluntary plan under which the new network will provide transport without charge to local broadcast and public, educational and governmental programmers. These channels would be available along with programming of all video information providers. Customers will need only a cable ready television set to receive these local channels. Video dial tone networks are common carrier networks that let customers connect to video information providers or high speed data networks in the same way today's telephone dial tone allows customers to make audio connections. "We are telling the FCC we will deploy our network throughout our region as quickly as possible," said Young. "Not only is this plan the right thing to do, it is also in our best interest to connect as many customers as we can since this will make the network more attractive to information providers." A hybrid fiber-coax system will connect customers to the network in each of the six major markets. In some parts of the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area, ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) technology will be used as well to provide the services over copper telephone lines. This will permit customers to receive interactive entertainment and information via ADSL before Bell Atlantic deploys the hybrid fiber coax technology. "This filing also should put to rest any concern about so-called 'electronic redlining'," Young said. "The racial diversity in the areas served by this new network is greater than that in the overall Bell Atlantic territory." The Bell Atlantic territory is 23.8% minority. However, the area where the advanced services will be deployed is 36.2% minority in population. Bell Atlantic Corporation, based in Philadelphia, is the parent of companies which provide a full array of local exchange telecommunications services in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The corporation is at the forefront of developing a variety of new products, including video, entertainment, and information services. Bell Atlantic also is the parent of one of the nation's largest cellular carriers and has an ownership position in cellular properties internationally. In addition, Bell Atlantic owns and interest in Telecom Corporation of New Zealand and is the parent of companies that provide business systems services for customer-based information technology throughout the U.S. and internationally. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 10:49:16 EDT From: Greg Monti Subject: IXC's and InterLATA CID The combination of Return Call and IXC handling of Caller ID makes for an interesting combination. You will be able to use these features in combination to find out the phone number of someone who called you, even if their Caller ID is blocked. I tried it recently on an interstate, intraLATA call. My LATA, Washington DC, crosses state lines. Calls to other states, even if local, may be preprended by an IXC carrier access code and will go through. There is no incentive to do this because you pay the toll rate of the carrier you select. I received a (local interstate) call from someone who had blocked their caller ID. I told them I could find out their number by concatenating a carrier access code with a Return Call code. We hung up. I dialed 10288*69. They answered. I received a bill from Bell Atlantic Virginia for $0.75 (the "per use" charge for Return Call), and, on the AT&T page, an itemized charge for a one-minute interstate toll call to 301 NXX-XXXX for about $0.17. So, for a grand total of $0.92, their blocked number was no longer a secret. In the future, when Caller ID rolls out nationally, *all* returned calls (using the Return Call feature) to blocked numbers will be billed by the IXC that carries them. No need to dial 10288. The secret number will be exposed on your bill. Greg Monti Arlington, Virginia, USA gmonti@npr.org ------------------------------