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TELECOM Digest     Tue, 12 Sep 95 16:27:00 CDT    Volume 15 : Issue 378

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Secretary General of ITU to Speak at USF (Dennis Foote)
    Split of 314 (Missouri) NPA (Toby Nixon)
    V.34+ Documentation Wanted (Matthew A. Earley)
    Need Advice on a Norstar PBX Upgrade (Robert McMillin)
    Question on RBOCs, Long Distance and Legislation (John Crowley)
    CBTA Telecon '95 - Vancouver, BC, Canada  Sept 12-14 (Greg 
Habstritt)
    GTE's Role in Mexican Gold Course Questioned (Nigel Allen)
    Bell Canada to Close Five Toronto-area Operator Locations (Nigel 
Allen)
    Re: Area Code Crisis -- A Different Viewpoint (Larry Ludwick)
    Re: Area Code Crisis -- A Different Viewpoint (Tye McQueen)

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            INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
    CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
                            
        A Symposium featuring Dr. Pekka Tarjanne
              Secretary General of the ITU
                            
       San Francisco, Friday, September 29th, 1995
                            
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United
Nations in San Francisco, the Telecommunications Management and Policy
Program in the McLaren School of Business at the University of San
Francisco is pleased to host a symposium to examine the future global
role of telecommunications and information technologies: INTERNATIONAL
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.
Keynote speaker at the symposium will be Dr. Pekka Tarjanne, Secretary
General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

This conference presents a unique opportunity for telecommunications
professionals in California to hear from the Secretary General.  The
ITU is the United Nations agency responsible for telecommunications.
Based in Geneva, the ITU now has more than 185 member nations, and is
responsible for global allocation of radio frequencies and standards
for telecommunications.

Following the Secretary General's address, panelists from the
telecommunications industry, major users, policy makers and
development experts will respond.  Dr.  Tarjanne will be present
throughout the symposium to respond to the panelists' presentations
and questions from the audience.

Topics to be addressed include:

 * What is the role of the ITU in the 21st century?
 * What is the Global Information Infrastructure (GII)?
   How do we get to GII?
 * How can telecommunications contribute to Asia/Pacific
   development?
 * How will the globalization of business affect the
   telecommunications industry?
 * What new technologies and services will be growth
   leaders in the Asia/ Pacific region?

The symposium is hosted by the Telecommunications Management and
Policy Program in the McLaren School of Business at USF, in
cooperation with co-sponsors Space Systems/Loral and AT&T Submarine
Systems.  The Telecommunications Program is a specialization within
the MBA program at USF.  The Telecommunications Program prepares
graduates for Information Age careers, and conducts research on the
impact of changes in technology and services in both U.S. and
international environments.

DATE:
  Friday, September 29, 1995

TIME:
  9:00 am to 12:30 pm
  (On-site registration from 8:30 to 9:00)

LOCATION:
  Pacific Rim Room, Lone Mountain Conference Center
  University of San Francisco
  (Front entrance on Turk, between Masonic and Parker)

PARKING:
  Behind Lone Mountain
  (Enter from Parker between Turk and Anza)

REGISTRATION FEE:
  $85 if preregistered, $95 on-site
  (Non-profits, members of professional associations: $45)

TO PREREGISTER, PLEASE SEND CHECK PAYABLE TO
"TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM, USF" TO:
  Telecommunications Program
  McLaren School of Business
  University of San Francisco
  2130 Fulton Street
  San Francisco, CA 94117-1080

For additional information, you may contact us at:

  Telephone:     415-666-2506
  Fax:           415-666-2502
  E-Mail:        telecom@usfca.edu


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And for those of you who attend, please
greet Dr. Tarjanne and thank him for the support shown by ITU to this
Digest over the past couple of years. The Telecom Information Exchange
Service project at ITU provides a continuing grant to me for my work 
with this Digest. It would be *very hard* to continue the Digest without
their support. Please let Dr. Tarjanne know your feelings about this.  
PAT]

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A Bellcore Letter received today announces the split of the 314 NPA and 
creation of the 573 NPA.  Here is the text of the letter.

Letter Number: IL-95/08-015
Type: Informational
Title: NANP-Split of 314 (Missouri) Numbering Plan Area (NPA)
To: Recipients of North American Numbering Plan (NANP) information
Entitled Companies: Unrestricted
Abstract: This IL provides industry notification of the impending split 
of the 314 NPA

We have been advised by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company that
substantial telephone number growth in the eastern half of Missouri
necessitates splitting the existing 314 NPA and the simultaneous
introduction of a new 573 NPA.

The St. Louis metropolitan area will retain the 314 NPA; Jefferson 
City, Columbia and the other towns in outstate Missouri will change to 
the 573 NPA.

The split of the 314 NPA, and the beginning of a permissive dialing 
period, will take place 11:59 PM CST on Sunday, January 7, 1996. The 
permissive dialing period will end 11:59 PM CDT on Sunday, July 7, 
1996. During the permissive dialing period, either 314 or 573 will be 
acceptable in a dialed number terminating in the new 573 NPA. After the 
permissive period, calls dialed with incorrect NPA codes, as defined in 
the NPA split information published in the Local Exchange Routing Guide 
(LERG), will be routed to intercept.

All international and domestic carriers are asked to ensure that the 
new 573 NPA has been activated throughout their networks prior to 
January 7, 1996. A test number for the new 573 NPA will be established 
on or about December 15, 1995. The test number will be 573-792-8378. 
Local exchange carriers, alternative access providers, PBX equipment 
vendors and others are also being asked to make this number available 
to business customers by the start of permissive dialing.

The attached map [not included in this message] illustrates the 314 and 
the 573 NPA configuration after the split. A listing of the communities 
to be served by each area code after the split is also attached.

The dialing plan for the new 573 and 314 NPAs will be the same:

* All home NPA (HNPA) "local" calls will be dialed on a 7 digit basis 
with no prefix; i.e., NXX+XXXX (7 digits).

* All HNPA direct dialed "toll" calls (generally calls that incur an 
additional charge) will be dialed with a prefix "1" and 10 digits; 
i.e., 1+HNPA+NXX+XXXX (10 digits).

* All foreign NPA (FNPA) direct dialed "toll" calls will be dialed with 
a prefix "1" and 10 digits; i.e., 1+FNPA+NXX+XXXX (1 + 10 digits).

* Operator assisted calls including credit card, collect, and third 
party calls will be dialed with a "0" prefix and 10 digits; i.e., 
0+NPA+NXX+XXXX (0 + 10 digits).

[Transcribers note: the letter does not mention FNPA local calls; 
perhaps there won't be any after the split.]

Questions of a technical nature should be directed to Pam Rak, 
Southwestern Bell, on (314) 957-1604. General questions should be 
referred to Lynda Meyer, Southwestern Bell, on (314) 957-6804.

Copies of this letter are being forwarded to achieve the widest 
possible industry distribution and may be reproduced for further 
distribution as needed. Questions concerning the contents of this 
letter may be referred to Jim Deak, Bellcore, at (908) 699-6612.

/signed/
J. N. Deak
North American Numbering Plan Administration

Towns remaining in 314 NPA:

Antonia, Augusta, Cedar Hill, Chesterfield, Dardenne, Defiance, De 
Soto, Eureka, Fenton, Festus, Foley, Foristell, Gray Summit, Harvester, 
Hawk Point, High Hill, High Ridge, Hillsboro, Holstein, House Springs, 
Imperial, Jonesburg, Manchester, Marthasville, Maxville, Moscow Mills, 
New Melle, O'Fallon, Old Monroe, Orchard Farm, Pacific, Pevely, Pond, 
Portage de Sioux, St. Charles, St. Clair, St. Louis, St. Peters, Town & 
Country, Troy, Truxton, Union, Valley Park, Ware, Warrenton, 
Washington, Wentzville, Winfield, Wright City

Towns changing to 573 NPA:

Advance, Annapolis, Argyle, Ashland, Auxvasse, Beaufort, Belgrade, Bell 
City, Belle, Belleview, Bellflower, Benton, Berger, Bernie, Big 
Springs, Birch Tree, Bismarck, Bland, Bloomfield, Bloomsdale, 
Blytheville, Bonne Terre, Boss, Bourbon, Bowling Green, Brazito, 
Bunker, Caledonia, California, Campbell, Canton, Cape Girardeau, 
Cardwell, Caruthersville, Center, Centertown, Centerville, Centralia, 
Chaffee, Chamois, Charlestown, Cherryville, Clark, Clarksburg, 
Clarksville, Clearwater, Climax Springs, Clubb, Columbia, Crocker, 
Cuba, Deering, Delta, Dexter, Dixon, Doniphan, Durham, East Prairie, 
Edgar Springs, Eldon, Ellington, Ellsinore, Elsberry, Eminence, Eolia, 
Essex, Eugene, Ewing, Fairdealing, Farber, Farmington, Fisk, Flat 
River, Fort Leonard Wood, Frankford, Fredericktown, Freeburg, Fremont, 
Frohna, Fulton, Garwood, Gerald, Gideon, Grandin, Gravois Mills, 
Greenville, Hallsville, Hannibal, Hatton, Hayti, Hermann, Holcomb, 
Hornersville, Horseshoe Bend, Holts Summit, Hunnewell, Huzzah, Iberia, 
Irondale, Ironton, Jackson, Japan, Jefferson City, Kennett, Laddonia, 
La Grange, Leadwood, Leasburg, Lesterville, Lewistown, Licking, 
Lilbourn, Linn, Louisiana, Lyon, Macks Creek, Malden, Marble Hill, 
Marston, Martinsburg, Meta, Mexico, Middletown, Mokane, Monroe City, 
Montauk, Montgomery City, Monticello, Morehouse, Morrison, Mount 
Sterling, Naylor, Neelyville, New Bloomfield, Newburg, New Florence, 
New Hartford, New Haven, New London, New Madrid, Oak Ridge, Oates, Old 
Appleton, Olney, Oran, Osage Beach, Owensville, Oxly, Palmyra, Parma, 
Patterson, Patton, Paynesville, Perry, Perryville, Philadelphia, 
Piedmont, Pocahontas, Ponder, Poplar Bluff, Portageville, Potosi, 
Puxico, Qulin, Redford, Rhineland, Richland, Richwoods, Risco, 
Rocheport, Rolla, Russelville, Safe, Salem, Santa Fe, Scott City, 
Senath, Shelbina, Shelbyville, Sikeston, Silex, Spring Bluff, St. 
Elizabeth, Ste. Genevieve, St. James, St. Marys, St. Robert, St. 
Thomas, Steele, Steelville, Stoutsville, Stover, Stanton, Sturgeon, 
Sullivan, Sunrise Beach, Sweetwater, Taos, Tebbetts, Timber, Tuscumbia, 
Van Buren, Vandalia, Versailles, Viburnum, Vichy, Vienna, Wappapelo, 
Wardell, Waynesville, Wellsville, Wesphalia, West Quincy, Williamsburg, 
Williamstown, Williamsville, Winona, Wyatt

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I recently logged onto the US Robotics BBS and found the files necessary
to upgrade my V.Everything to a 33.6k data-transmission rate.

 What standard does this faster data rate follow.  I would guess
it is USR or Rockwell proprietary, or is it a V.34+ from ITU?

 Does anyone know anthing about V.34+ or V.34 annex A?  Where
can I get more information? Who is primarily responsible for developing 
it?

 Last, is anybody aware of which companies have filed patents for or
related to V.34 and/or V.34+?


Thanks, 

Matthew

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Hi, folks, this is my first post in a long time ... my old
UUCP-connected 486 has stopped working, so I'm stuck using Netcom's
overloaded machines for now.  I have a little problem with my Northern
Telecom Norstar switch.  We're now at about two dozen incoming lines,
half voice incoming and outgoing to the PBX, and the rest dedicated to
things like fax machines.  Our company is expanding like crazy.  We're
rapidly coming to the end of usefulness of this PBX in terms of
extensions.  The other problem we're having is that our long-distance
bill is enormous: over the last two months, we've averaged $5.3k, a
great deal of which consists of calls to France.  (This works out to
about $300 per employee, an astonishing figure!).  So, as a side task,
I've been looking into whether digital entrance facilities would help
lower the cost of long distance.  AT&T's guesstimate is that it could,
but we have to know the cost of upgrading the PBX.

My question to the audience: has anyone done this recently?  Do I have
to replace the whole shebang to make it work?  Is there some add-on I
can use without throwing away the existing hardware?  We OWN this PBX,
so leasing equipment also entails selling off what we have.  Are there
more cost-effective systems than the Option 11 switch, the next step
up from Northern Telecom?

Thanks for any input.


    Robert L. McMillin  | rlm@helen.surfcty.com | Netcom: rlm@netcom.com
     Jail to the Chief! | WWW: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/rl/rlm/home.html
                      Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Bubba!

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Any information that anyone may have would be of a tremendous help.

 Q1) If telecom reform legislation continues and the RBOCs are
allowed back into the 'long distance' game, how are the RBOCs going to
compete? For example, Bell Atlantic has created a subsidiary Bell
Atlantic Long Distance, Inc., but Bell Atlantic has neither a network
or facilities outside of it's territory. How, therefore, will they
carry and switch traffic across the country?

 Q2) Do any of the other RBOCs have an equivalent entity to
Bell Atlantic's subsidiary Bell Atlantic Long Distance, Inc? If so,
what are they?

 Q3) How can companies such as Bell Atlantic Long Distance,
Inc. plan to compete against such traditional carries as AT&T and
Sprint?

 I know these questions are somewhat broad, but I'ld appreciate
any information or advice that anyone may be able to supply.


John


                         


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Just wondering if anyone's attending the show this week in Vancouver?

It's the biggest telecom show in Canada.  Should be pretty good.
Everyone who's anyone in telecom in Canada is there.


habstrig@onair.cia.com


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I've not received any mail on it yet
but if anyone cares to make a report when they get home, it will be
welcome here.   PAT]

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Here is a press release from Essential Information.

I downloaded the press release from the U.S. Newswire BBS in Maryland
at (410) 363-0834.  I do not work for or belong to Essential
Information or the organizations that signed this letter.


Jack Nicklaus, GTE Tee Off Mexican Community, National Park

Contact: Andrew Wheat of Essential Information, 202-387-8034

   WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- Seven U.S. and environmental leaders called
on Jack Nicklaus and GTE to withdraw support for a controversial
recreational, residential and business development slated to be built
on national park land near Cuernavaca, Mexico.

   The letter to GTE Data Services President Don Hayes and golf
course designer Jack Nicklaus reads in part:

   As you know, the "El Tepozteco" development would be a
multi-purpose luxury residential, recreational and business
development eight miles south of Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos.
It is estimated that Tepozteco's golf course alone will consume more
than 4,000 cubic meters of well water a day, about five times the
amount of this scarce resource than the entire town of Tepotzlan now
consumes. Community members are also cncerned about the golf course's
expected heavy use of agrochemicals and the potential for them to
enter the water table and harm the region's rich bio-diversity.

   Another reason that El Tepozteco -- which would cover 187 hectares
with 800 luxury homes, a five-star hotel, a business park, a
helicopter pad and recreational facilities -- is so controversial is
because it would be built on unusually beautiful land 45 miles from
Mexico City, land that has legally enjoyed multiple layers of federal
protection. El Tepozteco's site sprawls across land that has been
federally recognized as:

     El Tepozteco National Park;
     Ajusco-Chichinautzin biological corridor; and
     "communal property" of 800 local "comuneros."
     ...the financing of the entire project hinges on GTE's
commitment to invest $27.1 million in a "state-of-the-art data
processing facility." The golf course designed by Nicklaus would
be the anchor of the residential and recreational portion of the
development. The international prestige attributed to Nicklaus
courses is viewed as a magnet that would sell the development's
residential and recreational facilities.

   GTE and Golden Bear have great influence over the outcome of this
mislocated project. We are calling on you to exercise that influence
responsibly by withdrawing your participation.


 Ralph Nader
 Corporate Accountability Research Group, Washington, D.C.
 Carl Pope
 Executive Director, Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA
 Barbara Dudley
 Executive Director, Greenpeace-USA, Washington, D.C.
 Brent Blackwelder
 Executive Director, Friends of the Earth, Washington, D.C.
 Lori Wallach
 Global Trade Watch Director, Public Citizen, Washington, D.C.
 Ed Maschkel
 Director, California Public Interest Group, Santa Barbara, CA
 Andi Liebenbaum
 Executive Director, People for Parks, Los Angeles, CA

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Bell Canada's Toronto-area operators learned yesterday that the
company plans to close five Operator Services offices in Metropolitan
Toronto by the end of the year.  Two of the offices (both located at
Main Square, near the intersection of Danforth Avenue and Main Street)
are located in rented premises. The others are in Bell-owned
buildings. I'm not clear whether the offices being closed provide
directory assistance, long distance services or both. I'm also not
clear whether other locations outside Metropolitan Toronto are also
being closed.

Aggressive cost-cutting at other telephone companies, such as U S
West, has led to service quality falling below levels that regulatory
commissions would tolerate. I hope that Bell Canada can maintain
adequate service levels after these offices are closed.


Nigel Allen         ndallen@io.org       http://www.io.org/~ndallen/

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> If you're in NANP then you already have "local" numbers in 
> three standard lengths (seven, ten and three) and it
> doesn't take a timeout to distinguish them; consider this:

> *  Is there any timeout when you dial "911" before the
> switch decides that you aren't going to dial any more
> digits?  (There'd better not be!)

No other number in the world (as dialed from North America) begins
with 911.  This makes it easy for the telephone switch to figure out.

> *  Is there a timeout after you dial a 7-digit number
> before the switch decides you're not going to dial a
> 10-digit number? (No?)

Well, yes there is.  With the introduction of NPAs that look like NXXs
the switches now have to wait to see if any more digits are coming
before routing the call.  Although the prefix of 1, and the mandatory
ten digit dialing of intraLATA toll calls, generally makes it simpler,
the switches still have to watch out for those wierd combinations that
cause trouble.

> Well, why should seven and eight digit versions of local
> numbers be any harder to deal? As long as no short number
> ever forms a prefix for any longer number, the switch can
> always tell how many more digits to expect after the first 
> few digits.

I'm not sure I understand this one.  If all (or most) seven digit
numbers are in use (which is the only reason anyone would want an
eight digit number in the first place), then all eight digit numbers
would have the complication of having their fist seven digits be a
working station somewhere else.

In summary; eight digit phone numbers would not be significant problem
for state of the art telephone switches, but not all switches in North
America are state of the art. The majority of telco switches are state
of the art, but not all.  Variable length numbers would be a nightmare
for private switch owners -- both equipment and administration.

I feel sure it would be a major administrative problem.  I'm not sure
the gain in phone numbers would be worth the hair pulling.  Let's just
add new NPAs for a couple of more decades until the telephone system
is replaced by whatever your vision is of the information superhighway.


Larry Ludwick

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0400))


dmcmahon@edlgu4.ericsson.se (Denis McMahon) writes:

> martin@kurahaupo.kurahaupo.gen.nz (Martin D Kealey) wrote:
> >>> *Variable number length*
> >> This is terrible idea,
>> This is a *wonderful* idea.  :-)
> >> So the switch has to decide when you've finished
> >> dialing by some means, usually a timeout.
> >                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'd rather go to usually hitting "Enter" (for example "#") for all
calls.  Once you are entering more than about five digits, the chance
of accidentally skipping a digit or inserting a digit are fairly high.
The first is caught by a timeout.  The second is not caught.  I know
because my office phone contains a repeated digit (say, 234-567-8890)
so I get a lot of mis-directed calls from people trying to call any
234-567-890_ numbers.

It used to seem (to me at least) that most USA IVRUs (Interactive
Voice Response Units -- these don't usually respond _to_ voice, they
respond, _with_ recorded voice, to the caller entering DTMF tones --
touch tones) standardized on requiring "#" after a string of digits
has been entered.  It is becoming much more common for these to not
allow "#" after entries of fix-length digit strings, so I guess I'm in
the minority.

This is probably at least partially because Americans are used to
_not_ entering "#" after dialing numbers.  Of course, I often enter
"#" after dialing numbers either because they are international and
the calling card system and our PBX both must timeout otherwise or
because I got in the habit after a TelCo pamphlet on using those
"extra" features suggesting using "#" after each code so the feature
would be activated more quickly.

I recall some times when normal (local or national) calls seem to
have been connected faster due to my entering "#" at the end, but
I could have been mistaken.

Perhaps the cellular phone craze will change this as people have to
get used to hitting "Send" after they "dial" the number.


Tye McQueen                 tye@metronet.com  ||  tye@doober.usu.edu
             Nothing is obvious unless you are overlooking something
       http://www.metronet.com/~tye/ (scripts, links, nothing fancy)

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