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TELECOM Digest     Tue, 10 Oct 95 15:48:00 CDT    Volume 15 : Issue 426

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Book Review: "Casting the Net" by Salus (Rob Slade)
    India Telecom Summit 1995 in Washington DC, November 30 (Rishab A. 
Ghosh)
    12 Months to the Numbering Change in Finland (Kimmo Ketolainen)
    The New "israel.dcom.isdn" (Meir Guttman)
    New Bell Canada 900 Service Features (Dave Leibold)
    New List: mtalist - Michigan Telecom Act Re-write List (Thom Byxbe)

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BKCSTNET.RVW   950807
 
"Casting the Net", Peter H. Salus, 1995, 0-201-87674-4, U$26.85
%A   Peter H. Salus
%C   1 Jacob Way, Reading, MA   01867-9984
%D   1995
%G   0-201-87674-4
%I   Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
%O   U$26.85 markj@aw.com tiffanym@aw.com 800-822-6339 617-944-3700
%P   297
%T   "Casting the Net"
 
As with his earlier "Quarter Century of UNIX" (cf. BKQRCNUN.RVW),
Salus has collected the important players and papers, to set out a
history of the modern computer net.  (This is not limited to the more
strictly defined Internet, but encompasses the global, interconnected
data communications web which John Quarterman (after William Gibson)
has dubbed "The Matrix.")
 
As well as the conceptual and ARPANET foundations, there are snippets
from the development of Ethernet; email; OSI and protocol wars; UNIX;
Usenet; Bit, Fido, and proprietary nets; applications; and security.
A selection of the less serious RFCs provide diversions throughout the
book.
 
Salus' sources are excellent, but his writing style tends to be a bit
terse.  Still, for those who are seriously interested in the history
of the net, this is reliable material, compiled in one place.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995  BKCSTNET.RVW   950807. Distribution
permitted in TELECOM Digest and associated publications. Rob Slade's
book reviews are a regular feature in the Digest.


Vancouver      ROBERTS@decus.ca      
Institute for  rslade@cln.etc.bc.ca  
Research into  rslade@cyberstore.ca  
User           rslade@vanisl.decus.ca
Security       Canada V7K 2G6        

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The World Research Group is organising the India Telecom Summit '95,
a 2-day forum in Washington DC on November 30 and December 1. Special
guest speakers include India's Communications Minister and Chairman,
Telecom Commission, as well as US Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown,
and FCC Chairman Reed Hundt.

My newsletter on India's information industry, The Indian Techonomist
 -- published from New Delhi -- is the official publication. 

I've enclosed the programme of the summit and registration info. More
details will be available shortly at http://dxm.org/summit95/ The
Indian Techonomist is at http://dxm.org/techonomist/ For a request
form for a free sample issue of the Techonomist, send a blank mail to
sample-request@dxm.org

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (rishab@dxm.org)
Editor & Publisher, The Indian Techonomist

INDIA TELECOM SUMMIT 1995

NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 1, 1995
LATHAM HOTEL - WASHINGTON, D.C.

AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES CREATED BY
INDIA'S TRANSITION TO AN OPEN, MARKET-ORIENTED SYSTEM


MEET WITH LEADING DEVELOPERS, FINANCIERS, REGULATORS, AND
TELECOM EXECUTIVES IN INDIA'S RAPIDLY CHANGING
TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKET

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS
     Sukh Ram, Minister of Communication, Government of
India
     R.K. Takkar, Chairman Telecom Commission and Secretary,
Department of Telecommunications, Government of India
     Honorable Ron Brown, Secretary, U.S. Department of
Commerce

CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE:

AT&T, CPInternational, Ex-Im Bank, US West, HCL Corp, Tata
Incorporated, PanAmSat TRW/Odyssey, India America Chamber of
Commerce, US-India Business Council, Satellite Industry
Association, U.S. Dept. of State, IFC, TIA, IMTA, Global
Telesystems Group

HEAR THE VERY LATEST INFORMATION AND FORECASTS ON:

Emerging telecom regulatory reforms and policy
Licenses up for tender
Increasing financeability
Alternatives to government guarantees
Development in wireless satellite digital and mobile
communications
Streamlining the approval process
Establishing fair, efficient bidding and negotiations

PROGRAMME IN BRIEF

***Day One*** Tuesday, November 30, 1995

8:30 OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR
   Mark Riedy, Partner; Chairman India Practice
   Reid & Priest, L.L.P.
8:45 KEYNOTE: AN OVERVIEW OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN INDIA
   The Honorable Sukh Ram, Minister of Communications
   Government of India
9:30 THE OUTLOOK FOR THE TELECOM INDUSTRY IN INDIA
   Narayan Valluri, Minister (Economics)
   Embassy of India, Washington DC
   R.K. Takkar, Chairman Telecom Commission & Secretary,
   Department of Telecommunications
   Government of India
   Richard Barber, Executive Director
   Pacific Telecommunications Council
10:15 PRIVATIZATION & COMPETITIVENESS IN THE
INTERNATIONAL TELECOMSECTOR
   Ambassador Vonya B McCann,
   United States Coordinator, International Communications
   and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State
   Judith O'Neill, Chair Telecom Practice
   Reid & Priest, L.L.P.
   Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of
   Commerce
11:15 DOING BUSINESS IN INDIA
   Karan Swaner, Executive Director, US-India Business
   Council
   Ginger Lew, General Counsel, U.S.Department of Commerce
   Ashok Mehta, President, Tata Incorporated
   Patricia Paoletta, Director, U.S. Trade Policy, U.S.
   Trade Rep.
12:00 LUNCHEON REMARKS
   The Honorable Ronald Brown,
   Secretary of Commerce
   U.S. Department of Commerce
1:30 INDIAN TELECOM DEVELOPMENT IN THE LIBERALIZED
ENVIRONMENT: NEEDS, ECONOMICS OF OPERATION AND STAKEHOLDERS'
PROSPECTS
   Diju Raha, General Manager, Internatioanl R&D Operations
   Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
2:15 LEGAL OBSTACLES TO DOING BUSINESS IN INDIA
   Mark Riedy, Partner, Chairman India Practice
   Reid & Priest L.L.P.
   David Hardy, Partner, Reid & Priest L.L.P.
3:15 A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE INDEPENDENT REGULATORY
STRUCTURE
   Telecommunications Industry Association
4:0 DEVELOPING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
   HCL Corporation, Advanced Technologies Group

***Day Two*** Wednesday, December 1, 1995

8:0 OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR
   Rajiv Khanna, Presidient,
   India America Chamber of Commerce and Parrtner,
   LeBoef, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P.
8:30 GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON
INDIA
   Carol C. Darr, Associate Administrator, Office of
   International Affairs, NTIA, U.S.Department of Commerce
   Jeffrey M. Conklin and Beth A.Perdue
   Managing Partners, CPInternational
9:10 ATTAINING FULL DIGITAL NETWORK BY THE YEAR 2000
   R.K. Takkar, Chairman Telecom Commission and Secretary
   Department of Telecommunications
   William Carter, President
   AT&T Submarine Systems International
9:50 THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT CAPITAL
   Vipul Prakash, Senior Investment Officer
   International Finance Corporation
   Vincent D. Salvatore, Jr., of Counsel, Reid & Priest,
   L.L.P.
10:30 EX-IM BANK FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR EXPORTS TO INDIA
   Kevin G.O'Connor, Business Development Officer
   Export-Import Bank of the United States
11:05 FINANCING TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROJECTS IN INDIA
   Deborah A.DeMasi, Chairman Infrastructure Finance
   Reid & Priest, L.L.P.
11:50 LEAPFROGGING INTO NEW SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES
   Mike Nelson, Office of Science and Technology Policy
   Executive Office of the President
   Tedson J. Meyers, Partner, Reid & Priest, L.L.P.
12:20 BASIC TELEPHONY: BRINGING INDIA INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
1:00 LUNCHEON REMARKS
   The Honorable Reed Hundt, Chairrman
   U.S. Federal Communications Commission
2:00 MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF BUILDING
THE TELECOM NETWORK
   L.L.P.
2:55 GLOBAL SATELLITES AND THEIR ROLE IN LINKING INDIA
   Clayton Mowry, Associate Director
   Satellite Industry Association
   Tim Logue, Associate, Reid & Priest, L.L.P.
   Craig Moll, Regional Director South Asia,
   Middle East, Africa, PanAmSat
   Tom Tycz, Chief, Satellite Division
   U.S. Federal Communications Commission
3:35 WHAT ROLE WILL MOBILE TRUNK RADIO PLAY IN WIRELESS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT?
   Senior Advisor to the Chairman, Nextel
4:15 COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
   John McPhee, Director, Office of Computers & Business
   Equipment, U.S. Department of Commerce
   Frank Dorian, Tandem Computers
4:55 CLOSING REMARKS:OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE
   Mark Riedy, Partner, Chairman India Practice, Reid &
   Priest, L.L.P.

TO REGISTER:
Phone: 1-800-647-7600 (toll free)
Fax: 1-212-421-7325
Or write to:
   Customer Service Dept
   World Research Group
   12 E, 49th St, 17th Floor
   New York, NY 10017

REGISTRATION FEE: $ 1295 for the 2 day conference. Fee includes lunch,
refreshments, and conference documentation.

CANCELLATIONS: Your registration may be transferred to a member of
your organization up to 24 hours in advance of the conference. All
cancellations received on or before November 15, 1995 will be subject
ot $ 195 administrative charge. We regret that no refund for
cancellations will be made after this date.

CONFERENCE VENUE: Latham Hotel 3000 M Street, N.W  Washington, D.C.
20007, Phone : (202) 726-5000. Fax (202) 343-1800

SPECIAL TRAVEL RATES AVAILABLE: As the World Research Group's official
travel agent, Zenith Travel can offer specialy negotiated rates to
atendees. Call 1-800-221 2786 or 212-251-1455 and specify that you are
attending the india Telecom sumit conference when making your
reservation.

HOTEL ACCOMODATION: Mention the World Research Group for specially
reduced rates at the Latham Hotel. To take advantage of this discount
contact the hotel directly by Tuseday, November 14, 1995.

REGISTRATION FORM

YES Please register the following attendee (s) for the
India Telecom Summit
Name:
Company:
Position:
Division:
Approving Manager:
Address:
City:               State:              Zip:
Telephone:
Fax:
Enclosed is a check / Mastercard / Visa / American Express
Signature
Please send me information on Exhibtions     Sponsorship
(Please photocopy this form for additional attendees and pass
it on to another colleague).


The Indian Techonomist - newsletter on India's information industry
http://dxm.org/techonomist/                             rishab@dxm.org
Editor and publisher: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh           rishab@arbornet.org
Vox +91 11 6853410; 3760335;     H 34 C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA

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The largest single numbering change in Finland this far occurs on
Saturday 12 Oct 1996 at 00.00. The change affects most numbers in
the country:

 * All current 75 area codes are rearranged to only 13
 * Mobile phone and pager networks retain their codes
 * The leading digit 9 changes to the leading digit 0
 * 00 is introduced as a neutral international access code

BACKGROUND

The process of harmonizing the different access codes and emergency
numbers with those of the Western Europe began in early 1990's. One
of the major differencies has been the emergency number which has
been throughout the years 000 (and 002, 005) in Finland, whereas
in many other countries 00 has been used as the international line
access code. To free up the 00* number space, the standard EU emergency
number 112 was introduced in Finland in 1992, and a recording was put
behind 000 to tell callers to dial the proper number.

During the last five years the number of different area codes has been
coming down slowly with occasional merges. Currently, the number of
them is 75, and it will remain the same until next October.

The year 1994 brought finally competition to all the remaining
monopoly fields of telecommunications. At the same time, the concept
of 13 large telecommunications areas was introduced, and area code
billing was abolished making all calls within a telecommunications
area billable at the local call rate. The 13 areas are approximately
the same as the provinces of the country with few small local
exceptions, and a separat= e code of the capital area.



                

Subscriber numbers have been changed gradually to make most of them
seven digits long. The largest changes occur in 1995 and 1996, and the
last numbers change in 11 Oct 1996, on the last day of the old area
cod= e system. On 12 Oct 1996 none of the old area codes is usable.


NEW AREA CODES

    Area/Province   New code Old codes
    Aland Islands   018      928
    Central Finland 014      941 942 943 944 945 946 947
    Hame            03       916 917 918 919 931 932* 933 934 935 936 
937
    Kuopio          017      971 972 977 978 979
    Kymi            05       951 952 953 954
    Lapland         016      960 9692 9693 9694 9695 9696 9697 9698
    Mikkeli         015      955 956 957 958 959
    North Karelia   013      973 974 975 976
    Oulu            08       981 982 983 984 985 986 988 989
    Turku and Pori  02       921 922 923 924 925 926 930 932* 938 939
    Uusimaa I       09**     90
    Uusimaa II      019      911 912 914 915
    Vaasa           06       961 962 963 964 965 966 967 968

    *) Exception: the current area code 932 splits as follows: the
       municipality of Huittinen belongs to the new area code 02; the
       four other municipalities of Mouhijarvi, Suodenniemi, Vammala
       and Aetsa belong to the new area code 03.
    **) Capital area

    Example 1, national dialing: (921) 237 8227 changes to (02) 237 8227
    Example 2, int'l dialing: +358 21 237 8227 changes to +358 2 237 
8227
    Example 3, national dialing: (90) 1234 5678 changes to (09) 1234 
5678
    Example 4, int'l dialing: +358 0 1234 5678 changes to +358 9 1234 
5678


MOBILE PHONES AND PAGERS

Mobile phone and pager networks retain their codes. Only the leading
digit nine changes to the digit zero which is dropped when dialing
from abroad.

    Example 1, national dialing: 940 555 5508 changes to 040 555 5508
    Example 2, int'l dialing: +358 40 555 5508 does not change


INTERNATIONAL ACCESS CODES

The new neutral international access code 00 is taken into use to
accompany the various operator-specific codes such as 990, 994 and 999.
There is no word yet on how these access codes will change in the 
future.


SPECIAL SERVICES CODES

There is no word yet on how and when the remaining special services
codes, toll and toll free numbers in the leading digit 9 system will
change. A large part of them have been already moved to the leading
digit 0 system.


Kimmo Ketolainen   Internet <kk@sci.fi>   Telefonkartensammler

Yo-kyla 84 A 10    WWW http://iki.fi/kk   IAP http://www.sci.fi
FIN-20540 Turku    GSM +358 40 555 5508   Tel +358 21 237 8227

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Hello all ISDN'ers in Israel!

Welcome to the new "israel.dcom.isdn" USENET news-group.  I hope this
group will help us all in our respective interests as users,
professionals and "innocent bystanders", caught in the ISDN pond.

As at least one of the people who promoted and asked for this news
group to be created, I am taking the liberty of putting some
guidelines for the mission and purpose of the group.  These are of
course put as a basis for debate.  All of you are urged to put forward
their opinions, especially where they *oppose* those outlined here.

I am proposing the purpose of this group to be:

1) The discussion of ISDN issues *related to Israel*.  It is assumed
 that ISDN issues of general interest are better handled on the
 general news group "comp.dcom.isdn".

2) A forum for the announcement, discussion, debate, petition, and
 suggestions regarding ISDN related policies, tariffs, standards,
 services, etc. of:
    * The Ministry of Communications
    * BEZEQ
    * Cellular Phone Service Providers
    * International Call Carriers
    * Internet Service Providers

3) Questions, experience (good and bad) and help with the usage of
 ISDN equipment.
    
4) Posting commercial "News release" bulletins of interest to the ISDN
 community.

5) Announcements of compliance approval by the proper authority of
 equipment, software and services.
    
6) Announcing events (conferences, exhibitions, lectures, etc.) and
 Call-for-Papers of interest to the ISDN community.
    
7) Monthly posting of the Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) document.
 (The undersigned volunteered to collect and edit the FAQ, see
 related posting)

This article is cross-posted also to the "comp.dcom.isdn" and the rest
of the "comp.dcom.xxx" hierarchy.


Meir Guttman  <mguttman@netvision.net.il>
Phone +972-8-554 987

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This is an announcement of some new Advantage 900 Service features.
These are proposed for 1st November 1995 implementation, subject to
CRTC approval.

1) 900 Caller Identifier

The 900 number operator can receive the caller's number ... call 
blocking
(*67) will allow callers to suppress the Calling Line ID, though.

2) Dialed Number Identifier

When more than one 900 number terminates at the same location (for
purposes of identifying which commercials prompt which calls, etc),
this feature will allow the service provider to identify which 900
number was dialed by the caller. Bell will identify this in a special
"800-0/1XX-xxxx" format for use with CMS and Centrex setups. ISDN and
PBX setups will have the actual called number delivered.

3) Area Code Route

A 900 call can be terminated at different locations according to the
area code from which the 900 number was dialed.

4) FlexRoute

Calls can be routed to different terminating centres based on time
and day; this can be used to take advantage of different provincial
holidays and different time zones.

5) Emergency Route

Calls can be re-routed to a different terminating centre in the event
of an emergency or other disruption. The 900 service provider informs
the phone company to implement an emergency route in such situations.

6) Courtesy Response

A voice announcement is provided at times when the 900 call cannot be
answered.


Fidonet:  Dave Leibold 1:259/730
Internet: Dave.Leibold@f730.n259.z1.gryn.org

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A Moderated mailing list has been started to discuss the Michigan 
Telecommunications Act re-write currently underway in the Michigan 
legislature. This list will act as a tool to communicate information 
about the act and it's ramifications on the citizens of Michigan.

This act is being rushed through committee and there is very little 
time to act.  Please use this tool to communicate opinions and to 
rally support.  It is IMPORTANT that we move VERY quickly to ensure 
that this rewrite is fair to ALL of Michigans citizens.

For more information on the act please visit this WWW site:

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