------------------------------ From: Alan Shen Subject: Re: Cellphone Radiation Danger? Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 14:40:23 -0800 Organization: University of Washington On 29 Dec 1994, Chuck Campbell wrote: > Someone told me that cellular telephones have antenna radiation > danger, being in such close proximity to the brain. Is there any > discussion or literature regarding such claims, or can they all be > immediately dismissed as garbage? > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There has been discussion of this topic > here in these very columns in the past. Generally speaking, it is a > non-issue. It takes a lot more power than a cellphone antenna can > radiate before it matters. If John Higdon sees this, he may well decide > to respond. He did so the last time this topic arose here. He has worked > around RF radiation for years, and lots of it at that. PAT] Let's just say this. Your microwave is more powerful then your cellular phone. The TV gives of EMR. Your computer; a cop using a radar gun. I'm not trying to sound mean or anything, and that isn't what I'm trying to imply here. If you are going to live in fear of radiation, reality says that you'll never escape it. If using a portable phone with the antenna two or so inches (about six cm for your metric people ) away from your brain putting out 0.6 watts (this is according to US Standards. I know other standards put out 10X that much) is going to give you a BRAIN TUMOR, then don't use one! We're thoroughly aware of the fact that it may not be healthy for you. We're taking a chance. Why don't you just buy a mobile phone and put the antenna 20 feet away from you. That'll *technically* get rid of anyone's radiation worries. Daniel Kao ------------------------------ Date: 3 Jan 1995 14:49:36 -0500 From: Sean E. Williams Subject: Re: Watching the Area Codes Split John Lundgren wrote: > Someday there might just be a database that has your name, and the number > associated with it, and all people will have to do is punch up your name, > and not have to worry about a number. And it will be current. Just like the internet Domain Name System. It could have been implemented years ago, and then we wouldn't be having all the problems associated with the NANP -- your neighbor could be in a different area code, and you wouldn't even have to know or care, so long as you could remember his name! How about a system which provides a menu of available options? Start out by entering a person's name. Okay, so there are thousands of "Jim Smiths" in the US. At first, you are presented with the one who lives closest to you (the city / street would be displayed) or you could specify a specific location at the start if you are calling a "Jim Smith" who lives several states away. When you finally select the appropriate "Jim Smith", a menu appears listing the following options: home, cellular, pager, fax, data, etc. Select the option you wish, and you are connected to that service. I don't know much about ISDN, but it's probably capable of doing this right now if the appropriate software were to be written. Sean E. Williams (sean@epix.net) Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA Mobile/Voicemail/Pager: +1 717 580-5187 FAX: +1 717 834-5236 ------------------------------ From: morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Mike Morris) Subject: Re: Watching the Area Codes Split Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 02:36:44 GMT wa2ise@netcom.com (Robert Casey) writes: > In article Neal McLain edu> writes: >> My question: given that all three cities are centers of rapidly- growing >> metro areas, why not a three-way split: >> Nashville retains 615. >> Knoxville gets 423. >> Chattanooga gets something else. > Suppose area code 666 is to be asigned somewhere, maybe in the Bible > Belt. (there's some sort of connection with 666 with the devil). > Just imagine all the complaints you'll hear if this happens. The perfect location for area code 666 is Washington DC. Give the entire code to the federal government. Keep all the non-goverment stuff in the old area code. Mike Morris WA6ILQ PO Box 1130 Arcadia, CA. 91077 ICBM: 34.12N, 118.02W | Reply to: morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: We went through this once before, a couple years ago, and someone posted a list of all the places where the 666 exchange appeared around the USA, in which area codes, etc, and if there were any special users such as centrex accounts, etc on them. It seems to me somewhere some government offices were on 666 in that area code; maybe it was the IRS, I'm not sure. In Chicago, MONroe, MOnroe-6 and 666 has been a working exchange on the west side of Chicago for seventy years or more. In the old days when it was Monroe (and in fact there is a central office named for it, called 'Chicago-Monroe') no one seemed to notice it. Now pronounced 'six six six', a few people get sore about being assigned to it. Until they changed to the new number 312-TAXICAB a couple years ago, the Yellow/Checker Taxi radio dispatch office had the longest term number of any business in Chicago: 666-3700, which they held for seventy-plus years along with their other number of equal longevity for radio dispatched cabs, CALumet-6000. In my collection of pictures from Chicago's past, I have a picture of a Model-J Ford, taken about 1915, with the inscription on the side, 'Yellow Taxicab Service, Monroe 3700'. The devil you say! :) PAT] ------------------------------ From: dave@westmark.com (Dave Levenson) Subject: Re: '500' Numbers Finally Available Organization: Westmark, Inc. Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 15:53:48 GMT Jack Hamilton (jfh@crl.com) writes: [regarding 500 service from AT&T] > - They count the number of times per day you change the forwarding phone, > and if you exceed that number something happens (I don't know what). How can the number of times per day you change the forwarding phone exceed the number of times per day you change the forwarding phone? Was Jack trying to say that they impose a limit? Does anybody know what it is? Dave Levenson Internet: dave@westmark.com Westmark, Inc. UUCP: uunet!westmark!dave Stirling, NJ, USA Voice: 908 647 0900 Fax: 908 647 6857 ------------------------------ From: gerryg@earth.execpc.com (Gerry Gollwitzer) Subject: Re: Prepaid Telephone Debit Cards Date: 03 Jan 1995 16:57:17 GMT Organization: Exec-PC Kevin J. Sullivan (ksully@telerama.lm.com) wrote: > I'm looking for information on setting up a business selling prepaid > calling cards. Is there anyone who knows what you need to do this? I > have heard it is relatively easy, however I'd like to know some > specific details. > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think you'll find there are so many > people doing this -- as well as selling long distance in general through > various multi-level marketing schemes -- that the profit margin is very > very thin. I think you will work long and hard hours for a very small > commission. PAT] Hmmm ... we are finding the prepaid calling card programs to be very lucrative, especially for fund raising and company promotions. Gerry [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, let me know which company you are selling for, and something about the profit you are making on them if you don't mind. I may start handling it again. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jan 95 14:31:03 EST From: ehenry@Newbridge.COM (Ethan Henry) Subject: Re: Newbridge Channel Bank Organization: Crosskeys Systems Corporation In article is written: > tague@cwinc.win.net (Michael Tague) wrote: >> where is the Newbridge company located (or phone number)? > The listing in the new Dallas Yellow Pages shows the following: > [deleted] > I think this is the home office. If not they should be able to give > you the number. Gosh, I hope it's not the home office. The engineers are going to have an awfully long commute from their homes in Ottawa ... Newbridge's HQ is in Kanata, Ontario, but here is a list of their sales offices I got off of a '4602 MainStreet' poster. UNITED STATES Newbridge Networks Inc 593 Herndon Parkway Herndon, Virginia U.S.A. 22070-5241 Tel. 1 800 343-3600 1 703 834-3600 FAX 1 703 471-7080 CANADA Newbridge Networks Corporation 5580 Explorer Drive Suite 100 Mississauga, Ontario Canada L4W 4Y1 Tel. 1 416 238-5214 FAX 1 416 238-0581 LATIN AMERICA ASIA PACIFIC & RUSSIA Newbridge Networks Corporation 600 March Road P.O. Box 13600 Kanata, Ontario Canada K2K 2E6 Tel. 1 613 591-6300 FAX 1 613 599-3611 There's also an address in the UK. Newbridge has (I believe) local sales offices in various large cities, but I don't know anything about these. DISCLAIMER: Don't believe my email address, I don't work for Newbridge. Nice company though it is, I work across the street, at Crosskeys. Ethan Henry ehenry@newbridge.com CrossKeys Systems Corporation ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #3 ****************************