TELECOM Digest Thu, 5 Jan 95 17:08:00 CST Volume 15 : Issue 10 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Internet '95 Conference (Leona Nichols) 800 Numbers, How Important? (Paul Harts) Re: Telecom Group in Chicago (Maurice Givens) New Telecom Resource on the Internet (me@telematrix.com) Switch Features Information Wanted (Glenn Shirley) Videoconferencing Seminar in Rochester, NY (David C. Weber) Call Waiting and Caller-ID (Keith Knipschild) Cellphone ANI Now Being Given? (Keith Knipschild) Cellular Phone Pricing Question (John McGing) British Telecom Cuts Rates to Canada and U.S. (Dave Leibold) M2 Presswire Note (News Digest Reader Account) Need Profile of Teleport Communications Group (Linli Zhao) CAI Preferences by Service Providers (Alex Cena) Telecomix (Dave Leibold) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. 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Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 95 10:15:26 PST From: Leona Nichols Subject: Internet '95 Conference TeleStrategies' Internet '95 Conference/Expo CONFERENCE TRACK Publishing, Marketing and Advertising on the Internet March 21-22, 1995 Tuesday, March 21, 1995 9:00-10:30 Session C-1 THE FUTURE OF INTERNET PUBLISHING Brewster Kahle, CEO, WAIS, Inc. John Curran, Product Manager, BBN Technology Services Stanley R. Greenfield, President, Dial-A-Book, Inc. and former Senior Vice President and consultant for Ziff-Davis Publishing Company 10:45-12:15 Session C-2 HOW TO MARKET AND ADVERTISE EFFECTIVELY Jeffrey Dearth, CEO, Electronic Newsstand, Inc. Andrew Frank, Director, Software Development Ogilvy & Mather Direct Duffy Mazan, Partner, Electric Press, Inc. 1:30-3:00 Session C-3 PUBLISHING ON THE INTERNET Laura Fillmore, President, Online Bookstore John Pierce, Electronic Publishing Specialist Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Brad Templeton, President, ClariNet Communications 3:30-4:00 Session C-4 ONLINE CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS Lee H. Stein, Chairman and CEO, First Virtual Holdings Incorporated 4:00-5:30 Session C-5 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION OF INTERNET SECURITY Steven Lipner, Vice President, Trusted Information Systems, Inc. Kurt Stammberger, Technology Marketing Manager RSA Data Security, Inc. Raymond DeRoo, System Administrator, E-Znet Inc. Wednesday, March 22, 1995 8:30-10:00 Session C-6 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING ISSUES Kathlene Karg, Assistant Director, Copyright and New Technology Association of American Publishers, Inc. Steve Metalitz, Partner, Smith & Metalitz Rebecca Lenzini, President, CARL Corporation 10:30-12:00 Session C-7 DOING BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET Phillip J. Selleh, Solutions Consultant Worldwide Alliance Team, AT&T Global Information Solutions Fernand A. Lavallee, Senior Associate Venable Baetjer Howard & Civiletti Nat Ballou, Technology Consultant, Software Products Division AT&T Global Information Solutions Arthur S. Rosenfield, President, Business Development Group, Inc. 1:30-3:30 Session C-8 COMMERCENET: A MODEL FOR BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS ELECTRONIC COMMERCE Randall Whiting, Chair, CommerceNet Sponsors Steering Committee SESSION CHAIR Stacy Bressler, Worldwide Business Development Manager - Interactive Electronic Sales, Hewlett-Packard Company Robert Frank, Project Leader - Chief Scientist - Electronic Commerce/EDI, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Gail Grant, Vice President - New Business Development, Open Market, Inc. Mark Resch, Xerox Corporation Anita Schiller, Director of Electronic Marketing, Silicon Graphics, Inc. William Wong, CommerceNet Project Leader, Enterprise Integration Technologies WORKSHOP TRACK HOW TO DO BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET MARCH 21-22, 1995 TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1995 9:00-10:00 Session W-1 BUSINESS USES OF THE INTERNET Howard McQueen, President, McQueen Associates 10:15-11:00 Session W-2 NETIQUETTE: HOW TO DO BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET WITHOUT GETTING FLAMED Paul Kainen, President, Kainen Technology Services 11:00-12:00 Session W-3 SECURITY 101 Alan Taffel, Vice President - Marketing, UUNET Technologies, Inc. 2:00-2:30 Session W-4 WRITING FOR THE INTERNET Ed Hott, Vice President - Sales, Interse Corporation 2:30-3:45 Session W-5 CREATING A BUSINESS PRESENCE ON THE INTERNET Duffy Mazan, President, Electric Press, Inc. 4:00-5:00 Session W-6 MARKETING AND MANAGING YOUR SERVER Scott Finer, President, HSF Consulting WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1995 9:00-9:45 Session W-7 HANDLING ONLINE CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS Representative, First Virtual Holdings Inc. 9:45-10:30 Session W-8 ONLINE PUBLISHING Laura Fillmore, President, Online Bookstore 11:00-12:00 Session W-9 CREATING A PROFITABLE ONLINE CATALOG Gregory Giagnocavo, Internet Consultant, Wentworth Worldwide Media 2:00-3:15 Session W-10 BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS MARKETING ON THE INTERNET Robert Tobias, Senior Consultant, Regis McKenna Inc. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTUORIALS MARCH 20, 1995 Pre-Conference Tutorial -- Basic Level -- Session T-1 The Basics of Using the Internet for Business Monday, March 20, 1995 o 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. By John Buckley, Director of Training, Gestalt Systems, Inc. Pre-Conference Tutorial -- Advanced -- Session T-2 Understanding and Using Internet Resources and Improving Access Monday, March 20, 1995 o 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. By Howard McQueen, President, McQueen Associates Pre-Conference Tutorial -- Advanced -- Session T-3 COMMERCIAL WEB DEVELOPMENT Monday, March 20, 1995 o 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. By Duffy Mazan, President, Electric Press, Inc. EXHIBIT TRACK Exhibitors at past TeleStrategies Internet programs include: America Online Ameritech Library Services Gestalt Systems McQueen Associates PSI Inforonics Hybrid Networks, Inc. Spry, Inc. UUNET Legi-Slate Wentworth Worldwide Media WAIS, Inc. Internet Access Group EXHIBIT HOURS Monday, March 20 5:00-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 21 12:00-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22 10:00-2:00 p.m. In addition to the exhibits, on March 21-22, seven exhibitors will do in-depth online demonstrations of their services. FOR INFORMATION ABOUT EXHIBITING AT TELESTRATEGIES INTERNET 95, CALL JACKIE MCGUIGAN AT 703-734-7050. FOR MORE INFORMATION, REGISTRATION OR A COMPLETE CONFERENCE BROCHURE: CALL (703)734-7050 FAX (703)893-3197 E-MAIL internet@telestrat.com (Please include ground address or fax number to receive the full conference brochure, which is not available on-line) PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS -- March 20, 1995 (choose one) The Basics of Using the Internet for Business ...................$495 Understanding and Using Internet Resources and Improving Access..$495 Commercial Web Development.......................................$495 INTERNET CONFERENCE TRACK Plus workshops, exhibits and online demonstrations March 21-22, 1995................................................$985 ALL FOUR INTERNET 95 EVENTS A tutorial (please specify), conference, workshop, online demonstrations and exhibits March 20-22, 1995..............................................$1,395 INTERNET WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITS March 21-22, 1995................................................$495 EXHIBITS ONLY March 20-22, 1995.................................................$10 HOTEL INFORMATION Sheraton Crystal City Hotel 1800 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, VA 22202 703-486-1111 CONFERENCE HOURS Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday. Session hours are 9:00-5:00 on Monday, March 20, 9:00-5:30 on Tuesday, March 21 and 8:30-3:30 on Wednesday, March 22. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 15:10:58 GMT From: P.P.W.M.Harts@research.ptt.nl (Paul Harts) Subject: 800 Numbers, How Important? Organization: PTT Research, The Netherlands Hi, Recent research indicated that more than 25% of all 'long Distance Calls' in the United States is to an 800 number. Can any of you substantiate this percentage? And do you know if is it measured in frequency of use or in minutes? Thanks in advance, Paul email: P.P.W.M.Harts@research.ptt.nl mail : Winschoterdiep OZ 46 P.O. 15000 9700 CD Groningen Netherlands ------------------------------ From: maury@tellabs.com (Maurice Givens) Subject: Re: Telecom Group in Chicago Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 14:32:20 GMT In article logicarsch@aol.com writes > I do market research specializing in telecommunications. I'm looking > for a telecom organization that I can join that has a Chicago chapter. > Specifically, I'm looking for a group that has meetings, seminars and > get-togethers, a little newsletter, etc. etc. for a hundred or two > hundred bucks a year. Can someone clue me in? Thanks! > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You know, to show you what a hermit I > have become the past few years, my answer to your question would have > to be 'I do not know'. Seriously, I don't. Maybe we should start > one, or some sort of telecom discussion group, social, etc. PAT] As former chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the IEEE Comunications Society, I would like to invite you to our Chapter meetings. These meetings are frequented by local telecom engineers and researchers. Additionally, our meetings address timely issues concerning the telecom industry. For more information on metings of the Communications Society, or to get in contact with the current chairman, you may call the Chicago IEEE office at 1 800 898 IEEE (1 800 898 4333). All interested parties are invited to our meetings. Maurice "Maury" Givens PP ASEL IA AGI IGI maury@tellabs.com Ham Radio: N9DC ------------------------------ From: Me@telematrix.com Subject: New Telecom Resource on the Internet Date: 5 Jan 1995 18:44:53 GMT Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Our company, Telematrix Communications, has recently opened a new site on the World Wide Web called "telematrix.com." So far as we know, it's the only site devoted entirely to telecommunications information and we aim to become the main listening post and forum for people interested in this field. Our target audience includes both professionals and users of all sorts. We are contacting you because we seek your input. We would like to know what telecommunications information or resources you want or need that are not already readily available on the Internet. In addition, we solicit your reaction to our site and suggestions for any improvements. At present, we have a free calendar of telecom events, new product announcements, softwasre, practical "tips" on telecom cost savings, newsletters, magazines and educational/training resources, plus much more. Telematrix.com can also be accessed by gopher, ftp and telnet. Thank you for your interest. http://www.telematrix.com/ ------------------------------ From: shirleyg@stanilite.com.au (UL ENG) Subject: Switch Features Information Wanted Date: 6 Jan 1995 04:26:19 +1100 Organization: Stanilite Electronics Pty. Ltd. Sydney, Australia Does anyone know of a standard or recommendations for features in B number analysis type tables ie. someone dials 414-xxxx and the switch knows to throw away the 414 and replace it with say 555 or strips it entirely or dials 414-yyyy where yyyy is a certain offset from xxxx. I need to know what minimum features should be available in a switch's number translation type functionality. Standards can be CCITT(ITU), EIA or whatever. Alternatively decent books that deal with the subject. Hope the above made sense. Glenn ------------------------------ From: David C. Weber Subject: Videoconferencing seminar in Rochester, NY Date: Thu, 05 Jan 95 16:20:18 EDT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link There will be a free Personal Videoconferencing seminar in Rochester, NY on Thursday January 19, 1995. The Seminar is sponsored by: PicturePhone Direct, Intel, and Frontier Communications. The seminar will include hands on demonstrations and presentations with Intel's ProShare Videoconferencing system, Frontier Communications ISDN services, and System integration by PicturePhone Direct. There will be two individual sessions:Session 1 from 10:30am-12:30pm, and Session 2 from 1:30pm-3:30pm. The Seminar will be held at 180 South Clinton Ave. Rochester, NY. For reservations or information please call 1-800-810- 9966 or email to pp000231@interramp.com. ------------------------------ From: keith.knipschild@asb.com Organization: America's Suggestion Box - BBS (516) 471-8625 Date: Thu, 05 Jan 95 00:44:32 Subject: Call Waiting and Caller-ID I got the lastest edition of the HELLO DIRECT Catalog (Spring 95) today, and I noticed on page 24, they are selling a Northern Telecom PowerTouch 225 w/Caller ID. This phone has capabilites for different modules. The ad states: " Caller ID, Call Waiting Module - coming in mid-95 You'll see who's on a call waiting call, without interupting the call you're already on." Is this possible yet? Anywhere? " Also in LATE-95 a new module called "ADSI" is comming. It will help doing banking, paybills, and such -- by phone." What is ADSI? Keith.Knipschild@asb.com ------------------------------ From: keith.knipschild@asb.com Organization: America's Suggestion Box - BBS (516) 471-8625 Date: Thu, 05 Jan 95 00:44:31 Subject: Cellphone Now Giving ANI? I guess NYNEX Mobile has made some progress, Today I dialed 1-800-MY- ANI-IS from my Cellular phone ... and guess what ... it came back with my cellular phone number. In the past it would come back with a WEIRD number. Is NYNEX Mobile the first company to pass along the ANI from cellular phones? Keith.knipschild@asb.com ------------------------------ From: jmcging@access.digex.net (John McGing) Subject: Cellular Phone Pricing Question Date: 4 Jan 1995 21:51:09 -0500 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA Reply-To: jmcging@access.digex.net I have a car phone on Cell One here in the Baltimore area. The plan is $24.95 a month plus $.39 or $.37 per minute prime and $.19 or $.17 per minute off-prime (I don't have my bill handy.) Anyway, where I work we have a big employee assocuation that recently announced they had some special pricing plans from both Bell Atlantic Mobile and Cell 1. I'm not sure but think each was offering the same pricing scheme which was (per BAM): Pay the employee association $25.00. BAM monthly charge becomes $8.95. Per minute charges were the same as under the existing plan (above). This requires a three year contract. Cell One showed up, and sold about 200 accounts then told the employee association that they had run out of slots and packed up and left. BAM is coming back two more times next week. (They actually walk out to the parking lot and reprogram your phone as part of the sale. I found that interesting.) Anyway, I have a couple of questions: Even including the $25.00 year to the employee association, the monthly base cost is $11.03 month vs $24.95. Over three years that's $167.00 x3 or over $500.00 in savings. Is this deal too good to be true? The three year thing doesn't worry me (we're NOT moving and the car phone we have is a real top drawer Motorola we can switch to a new car.). Should it? And why would Cell One only have 200 "slots"? BAM was doing a land office business. I called Cell One to see if they could match the BAM pricing, the sales rep said no and said he understood why I would want to switch and said to call them when I wanted the service terminated! . Appreciate any insight on whether this is a switch that makes sense to do. John jmcging@access.digex.net jmcging@ssa.gov J.MCGING on GEnie 70142,1357 on Compuserve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jan 95 00:20 EST From: dleibold@gvc.com (Dave Leibold) Subject: British Telecom Cuts Rates to Canada and U.S. British Telecom calls from the UK to Canada and the U.S. will cost about 20% less effective February 1995, according to a BT announcement reported by the Associated Press. The cuts were reportedly authorized by the UK regulator last year as part of a price reductions scheme. The sample rate given was for a three minute call at the lowest rate period: the former rate was equivalent to CAD$3.14; the new rate will be CAD$2.49. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Do you think this price reduction is somehow tied in with the recent ability to dial 1-800 numbers in the USA from the UK as Clive pointed out a couple days ago? 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We've deliberately not appended the material in order not to trouble you further. Thank you for your time. We hope to see you as a regular user of M2 Communications' resources in the future. Sincerely, M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Darren P. Ingram (di@m2comms.demon.co.uk) -- Please note new e-mail address M2 Communications Ltd. Reptile Hse, 20 Heathfield Rd, Coventry CV5 8BT, UK Tel: +44 (0)1203 717417/Fax: +44 (0)1203 717418/Tlx: 94026650 DBRIG Publishers of Telecomworldwire, Service Communications, Internet Business News M, Data Broadcasting News and now M2 PRESSWIRE (info@m2comms.demon.co.uk) ------------------------------ From: lzhao@wellfleet.com (Linli Zhao #8277) Subject: Need Profile of Teleport Communications Group Date: 5 Jan 1995 16:18:16 GMT Organization: Wellfleet Communications, Inc. Reply-To: lzhao@wellfleet.com I need any information known about Teleport Communications Group (TCG). Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Linli Zhao Internet: lzhao@wellfleet.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Jan 95 11:56:18 EST From: Alex Cena Subject: CAI Preferences by Service Providers I am trying to build a list of air interface preferences by US cellular and PCSservice providers. Any comments, corrections, additions, etc. would be highly appreciated. Service Provider Air Interface Comments CELLULAR AirTouch CDMA Full Svc in San Fernando Jun 95 Ameritech CDMA Construction starts 3Q95 Bell Atlantic TDMA Likely to switch to CDMA Bell South TDMA Under Construction GTE CDMA Under Construction in Austin, TX McCaw TDMA Commercial NYNEX CDMA Trials Southwestern Bell TDMA Commercial Sprint CDMA Under Construction US West CDMA Svc in Seattle Mid '95 PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES McCaw/AT&T ? Wireless Co ? Pacific Bell DCS1900 Bell South DCS1900 SouthwesternBell DCS1900 APC DCS1900 Go Communications DCS1900 GTE CDMA AT&T/Cable&Wireless CDMA PCS Primeco CDMA Ameritech CDMA OmniPoint DS1900 Thanks in advance, Alex M. Cena, acena@lehman.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jan 95 00:22 EST From: dleibold@gvc.com (Dave Leibold) Subject: Telecomix Highlights of some of the newspaper phunnies with phone topics in recent months: Charlie 13 Dec 94: [at a police station] "If he wants to use his one phone call under the Miranda rule to call a TV shopping club, that's his right, John." Mixed Media 10 Oct 94: Introduced the concept of "MCI Friends and Royal Family ... for those making 300 calls to the same number." The Better Half 28 Aug 94: Stan invites Harriet to call his "Hubby Hotline" for $3.99/minute. Animal Crackers 14 Nov 94: [Lyle the ever-jilted lion phoning his ever-unrequited love:] "Lana's installed call forgetting" On The Fastrack 10 Oct 94: The newly-wed Bud & Chelonia are seen having their first fight - namely an net flame war. Finally ... {Mad Magazine} #332 had an article full of cell phone comics. I won't spoil those ones, though ... [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I am curious: Who is running {Mad Magazine} now that Bill Gaines has passed away? It was his thing for all the years it operated until his death. PAT] ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V15 #10 *****************************