------------------------------ From: impact Subject: X.25 Card and C Library For PC Date: 15 Dec 1994 20:29:18 GMT Organization: CompuTech Hello all, I've been asked to find information about X.25 network cards, and a C library that will work in a MS-DOS environment. We are currently using Western Digital X.25 cards, but are unable (I'm told) to get tech support for the hardware. I've seen two company web pages that sell the X.25 cards for UNIX boxes, but have not run accross anything that is PC based. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Katherine Gooding ITC Teleservices Spokane, WA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 01:16:19 +0100 From: Dik.Winter@cwi.nl Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries Yves Blondeel : > Article 2 of the Decision states that: > The single European emergency call number shall be introduced by > 31 December 1992 at the latest, except... (exceptions to be justified) > Note: if exceptions are used, the new date must be no later than > 31 December 1996. The Dutch PTT will probably succeed meeting the second deadline. Currently the emergency number is 0611; 112 can not yet be implemented because there are many local numbers that start with 112. In October 1995 most telephone numbers in the Netherlands will change; one of the reason is the ability to implement 112. However, for at least one half year the old numbers will still be valid. So the earliest possible implementation of 112 is about April/May 1996. dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924098 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 12:53:13 GMT From: Clive D.W. Feather Quoth Kimmo Ketolainen: > Great Britain and N.Ireland 112 That should read: United Kingdom 112 and 999 (equivalent) Clive D.W. Feather Santa Cruz Operation clive@sco.com Croxley Centre Phone: +44 1923 813541 Hatters Lane, Watford Fax: +44 1923 813811 WD1 8YN, United Kingdom ------------------------------ From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - SunSoft ICNC Grenoble) Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries Date: 15 Dec 1994 08:52:21 GMT Organization: SunConnect In article , Kimmo.Ketolainen@utu.fi (Kimmo Ketolainen) writes: > Do you have any other to add, Pat? Some of these have been extremely > hard to find, because people in many countries have not known what to > do in case of emergency ... and thus don't know the number at all. 112 has been officially adopted as a Europe-wide emergency number, but I'm not sure how widespread its implementation is yet. > France 112 I think 112 now works, but most phones and phone books I've seen still list 15 (Ambulance) 17 (Police) and 18 (Fire). France Telecom have not sent out any notification of a change to its customers. > Great Britain and N.Ireland 112 As for France, 112 is the new number and will work in the UK, but for 50 years 999 has been the number, and I suspect that if you stop people in the street and ask, 100% of answers will be '999'. Steve McKinty Sun Microsystems ICNC 38240 Meylan, France email: smckinty@france.sun.com ------------------------------ From: erling@wm.estec.esa.nl (Erling Kristiansen) Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries Date: 15 Dec 1994 08:06:30 GMT Organization: ESA/Estec/WMS, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Reply-To: erling@wm.estec.esa.nl The emergency number in The Netherlands is not (yet) 112. The present number is 0611. 112 is planned some time in the future, I haven't got the date. Introducing 112 is a major undertaking because, in most places, a number starting with a "1" is a local subscriber number. 112 can only be introduced after restructuring the complete numbering plan. 112, in fact, is the emergency number mandated by the European Union, but many countries have not introduced it yet due to collisions with the current numbering plan. So I suspect that some of the other European countries in your list do not have 112 in operation yet. As a side remark, I wonder how they came up with 112, which has a very high rate of conflict with existing numbers. Most EU countries have "0" as first digit to escape from local call to long distance or special service. ------------------------------ From: knop@duteca8.et.tudelft.nl (Peter Knoppers) Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries Date: 15 Dec 1994 17:18:33 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Kimmo.Ketolainen@utu.fi (Kimmo Ketolainen) writes: > Netherlands, The 112 WRONG! Currently the number is 0611, the number 112 will be introduced at some time in the future. Please fix the list. Errors like this can be dangerous. Peter Knopers - knop@duteca.et.tudelft.nl ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers In Various Countries Date: Thu, 15 Dec 94 17:07:28 CET From: Graham Sistemi Sas In Italy the numbers are: 112 Police (Carabinieri) 115 Fire Dept 116* Auto Repair (Automobile Club d'Italia, also known as A.C.I.) 118 Ambulance 113 All those services together (the most known and the most used) *A.C.I is a private organisation and prices are different for subscriber and other. ------------------------------ From: janjoris@win.tue.nl (Jan Joris Vereijken) Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries Date: 15 Dec 1994 16:24:29 +0100 Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Reply-To: janjoris@acm.org (Jan Joris Vereijken) Kimmo Ketolainen wrote: > Netherlands, The 112 *WRONG* The Netherlands uses 0611 as the universal emergency number. We will change to 112 in a few years, though... Hope This Helps(tm), Jan Joris Vereijken, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 40 474628 / 840754 Email: janjoris@acm.org ------------------------------ From: marks@pacifier.com (Mark Silbernagel) Subject: Re: Cellular Roaming in NYC Suspended Date: 15 Dec 1994 10:55:57 -0800 In article , wrote: > Well, Cellular One in Pittsburgh (PA) tried something like this once, > with international calls. They sent around a letter to all > subscribers to tell them that due to an increase in fraud, they would > no longer be able to dial international calls from their cellular > phones. So, I made a polite phone call to their customer service > number saying that I'd contracted for a service to be able to call > anywhere I wanted to, and that I wanted my international calling > restored. Immediately. Guess what? They did it. Just for my phone, > not in general. Has anyone tried this with Cellular One Baltimore and > their NYC roaming policy? The same thing was done here in the Portland Oregon area a few years ago. Without announcement, all international calling was shut off. If you needed it, you called customer support and had it turned back on. Not that big of a deal, except that I recall thinking that it was no way to treat a paying customer. So, the default these days is probably *off* until you request otherwise. Guess I'll have to try it on my new digital... ;') Mark pacifier.com - Vancouver's Public access Internet (206) 693-0325 telnet or dial the above and type "new" at the prompt to register ------------------------------ From: djcl@io.org (woody) Subject: Re: Freakers and Fraudulent Billing on "Chat" Lines Date: 15 Dec 1994 07:28:15 -0500 Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151 Voice: 416- 363-8676 In article , Douglas W. Martin wrote: > The latest scheme I've heard discussed claims to use third-party > billing to a defunct exchange. For example, one group of callers were > apparently billing calls to (416)465-xxxx where the 465 exchange used > to be part of metro Toronto and is now only dialable with 905. There are exchanges that went from 416 to 905, but 465 was not one of them. 416-465 has long been in the east end of Toronto proper. > My questions: can calls be thiird-party billed to numbers where > permissive dialing has expired? Can a freaker with the right In Bell Canada land, billing to third number requires an operator verification of the number to be billed (ie. an acceptance from the third party). If the permissive period expires, the third party should likely be undialable. > The freaker I talked to also mentioned "diverters", which he > defined to me as numbers that would give a new dial tone such that the > subsequent call couldn't be traced. Can it all be that simple if you > want to defraud a person or phone company? If a diverter gets enough abuse, one might suppose the chain of calls through diverters could be traced; that is, trace a-->b, b-->c and connect the dots ... And on a side note, calls to 900 or "976" (in-area charge numbers) cannot be charged to calling cards or called from payphones. djcl@io.org ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Buffalo NY Crack Down on Pay Phones From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau) Date: 15 Dec 94 12:51:00 GMT Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York NY - 212-274-8110 Reply-To: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau) > Although I hate to interject here, this choice in limiting payphones > around housing projects in some ways dovetails recent post office > decisions to stop mail delivery altogether to residents in certain > 'high risk' housing projects. While much talk has been made of > 'fair/equal access' to be provided with newer telecommunication > services in the future, my skepticsm grows when I see basic and > existing services removed. In New York City I suspect that NYC Housing Authority project drug dealers would get cloned cellular phones and not bother with payphones. ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V14 #451 ******************************