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TELECOM Digest     Tue, 5 Sep 95 14:15:30 CDT    Volume 15 : Issue 371

Inside This Issue:                          Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Boston Area Telephone Exchange Name History (Jim Jacobs)
    Digital Broadcasting In Japan (Telecom Tribune)
    Get Busy and Forward to Yourself (Les Reeves)
    Q.931 (I.451) Series Recommendation Required Urgently 
(chana1@und.ac.za)
    Names For That Key Under the 9 (Martin D. Kealey)
    Voting by Phone in the Netherlands (Alex van Es)
    Power Line Phones and Modems (Thomas Hinders)
    Beyond V.34, V.34bis and Rockwell's 33.6 (Matthew A. Earley)
    Employment: Head of Telecommunications (Luc Nicolai)
    Employment: Western Union, Senior Account Executive (Nigel Allen)

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Since other contributors have recently provided information about the
histories of the Chicago and New Orleans telephone systems, I decided
to do a listing of exchanges for central offices located within 10
miles of Boston in 1959, the year before all-number calling made it's
debut in this area. Since I now live more than 1000 miles from Boston,
I do not have the opportunity to visit a public library to obtain
information from old telephone books. All of the information below
comes from my memory and a list of current ANIs for the area.

In 1948, exchange names went from three letters to two letters and one
number.  For example CAPitol became CApitol 7. This allowed New
England Telephone to use the same exchange name with several suffix
numbers.

Some Boston exchange names came from the history of the area which is
also the story of the beginnings of the United States.  Since Boston
was the birthplace of the telephone (and the original headquarters
city of AT&T), some exchanges were named after telephone pioneers.

It is also interesting to know that sections of the City of Boston,
have a seperate telephone identity. A long distance call made to the
Roxbury section of the city (only three miles from downtown) will be
billed as a call to Roxbury, not to Boston.  This is also true for
calls made to Dorchester, West Roxbury, Hyde Park, Brighton, 
Charlestown, 
South Boston, and East Boston.


BOSTON TELEPHONE EXCHANGES    -   1959


LOCATION REASON FOR NAME            COMMENTS OR NAME BEFORE 1948


DOWNTOWN - 185 Franklin St. Office **

CApitol 3       State Capitol Building     Federal Govt. offices only
CApitol 7       State Capitol Building     CAPitol
LAfayette 3 Revolutionary War Hero    LAFayette
MEridian 7 Time-of-day information    MEridian 7-1234 (only)
RIchmond 2      Richmond Street            RIChmond
SHerwin 3       Telephone Pioneer          N.E. Telephone Co. offices 
only
WEather 6 Weather information        WEather 6-1234 (only)


DOWNTOWN - 8 Harrison Ave. Office **

DEvonshire 8    Devonshire Street          Only Boston Police (DE 8-
1212)
                                           and pay phones had this 
prefix

HAncock 1       Revolutionary War Hero     Only for John Hancock Ins. 
Co.
HAncock 6 Revolutionary War Hero    HANcock
HUbbard 2 Telephone Pioneer    HUBbard
LIberty 2       Patriotic word             LIBerty


DOWNTOWN - BACK BAY **

CIrcle 7        Name origin unknown     Only pay phones on this exchange
COngress 2      Not a local name        Created in 1950s
COmmonwealth 6  Commonwealth Ave.       COMmonwealth
COpley 7        Copley Square           COPley
KEnmore 6       Kenmore Square          KENmore

** Denotes CENTRAL EXCHANGE OFFICE. Residential customers in other areas
had the option of unlimited calling plans for calls made outside these 
areas,
however ALL calls made to these areas were message unit calls.  Also,
residences within these areas were offered only message unit calling 
plans.


ARLINGTON

MIssion 3 / 8   Not a local name        Replaced manual office in 1950s
HUnter 3 / 8    Not a local name        {Served customers of ARlington 
manual
                                        {exchange located in W. Medford.

BELMONT

IVanhoe 4 / 9   Not a local name        Replaced manual office in 1950s.

BRIGHTON / ALLSTON

ALgonquin 4     Name origin unknown     ALGonquin
STadium 2       Harvard Stadium         STAdium

BROOKLINE

BEacon 2        Beacon Street           BEAcon
ASpinwall 7     Aspinwall Avenue        ASPinwall
LOngwood 6      Longwood Avenue         LONgwood
REgent 4        Not a local name        Created in 1950s


CAMBRIDGE

ELiot 4         Eliot Street            ELIot
KIrkland 7      Kirkland Street         KIRkland
Trowbridge 6    Trowbridge Street       TROwbridge
UNiversity 4    Harvard University      UNIversity
UNiversity 8    Harvard University      UNIversity

CHARLESTOWN

CHarlestown 2   Name of area served     CHArlestown


CHELSEA

TUrner 4 / 9    Not a local name        Replaced CHelsea 3 manual office 
1957


DORCHESTER

BAyside 9       Dorchester Bay          Created in 1950s
COlumbia 5      Columbia Road           COLumbia
AVenue 2 / 8    Dorchester Avenue?      Created in 1948
GEneva 6        Geneva Avenue           GENeva
TAlbot 5        Talbot Avenue           TALbot


EAST BOSTON

Logan 7 / 9     Logan Airport           {Replaced EAstboston 7 manual 
office
                                        {approx 1957

HYDE PARK
---------
EMpire 1 / 4    Not a local name       {Replaced HYdepark 3 manual 
office

                                       {approx 1955
EDgewater 3     Not a local name       [Served customers formerly in

                                       [HYdepark 3 located in Milton

JAMAICA PLAIN

JAmaica 2 / 4   Name of community       JAMaica

LEXINGTON

VOlunteer 1/3   Patriotic name          Replaced manual office in 1950s
  (Minute Man)

MALDEN

DAvenport 2 /4  Not a local name        Replaced manual office in 1950s.


MEDFORD

EXport 5 / 6    Not a local name        Replaced manual office in 1950s.


MILTON / MATTAPAN

BLuehills 8     Blue Hills Reservation  Split in 1959
CUnningham 6    Cunningham Park         Split in 1959
CYpress 6       Not a local name        Mattapan customers prev. on CU6
CYpress 8       Not a local name        Mattapan customers prev. on BL8
OXford 6        Not a local name        Milton customers prev. on CU6
OXford 8        Not a local name        Milton cistomers prev. on BL8

NOTE: BLuehills and CUnningham customers had dial service long before
1959. After the 1959 split, Mattapan and Milton customers were still
served from a central office located in Milton. Throughout the 1960's,
I lived in Mattapan and my number was CYpress 6-5356. However, calls
dialed as OXford 6-5356 still went through to my phone.


NEEDHAM

HIllcrest 4     Not a local name        Replaced NEedham 3 manual office

NEWTON

BIgelow 4       Name origin unknown     BIGelow
DEcatur 2       Name origin unknown     DECatur
LAsalle 7       LaSalle Junior College  LASalle
WOodward 9      Not a local name        Created in 1950s


QUINCY

GRanite 2 / 9   Local granite quarry    GRAnite
MAyflower 9     Pilgrims' ship          MAYflower
PResident 3     Quincy is birthplace of Presidents John Adams & 
J.Q.Adams


REVERE

ATlantic 4 /9   Revere located on ocean {Replaced REvere 8 manual office
                                        {approx 1957

ROXBURY

GArrison 7      William Lloyd Garrison  GARrison
                (Abolitionist)
HIghlands 2 /5  Roxbury Highlands       HIGhlands


SOMERVILLE

MOnument 6      Name origin unknown     Replaced manual office in 1950's
PRospect 6      Name origin unknown     Replaced manual office in 1950's


SOUTH BOSTON

ANdrew 8 / 9    Andrew Square           {Replaced SOuthboston 8 manual
                                        {office in early 1950's

WALTHAM

TWinbrook 3 /9  Not a local name        Replaced manual office in 1950's


WATERTOWN

WAlker 4 / 6    Not a local name        {Replaced WAtertown 3 manual 
office
                                        {in 1950's
Note: WAlker was used as the new prefix even though Watertown began with 
WA 


WEST ROXBURY

FAirview 3/5/7  Not a local name        Replaced manual office approx 
1954
HOmestead 9     Not a local name        {Used for Brookline customers 
served
                                        (by W. Roxbury central office

WINTHROP
VIking 6        Not a local name        Replaced manual office in 1950s


Compiled by Jim Jacobs, Senior Communications Consultant with
LDDS / WorldCom, Tampa Florida.

Office voice +1-813-276-5155         Office fax   +1-813-229-6373
E-mail jim.jacobs@pchelp.com         Voice mail   +1-813-330-2500

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Following is a story which we ran in our August issue of The Telecom
Tribune.  We are a trade journal covering Japan's high-tech and
telecommunications industry in English.  We hope you find this story
interesting and useful and you can send comments and questions
regarding this or any of TT's stories to Kevin Scherrer at
ttribune@shrine.cyber.ad.jp

You can view our newly revamped online edition at 
http://www.tokio.co.jp/

     ---- Begin Story ----

Satellite Digital Broadcasting to Launch in Japan

By Noriko Takezaki

On August 29, a satellite is scheduled to be launched from Cape
Canaveral, in the U.S., bearing the hopes of the Japanese for the
country's first satellite digital broadcasting, the much anticipated
ISDB (integrated services digital broadcasting) which will help
realizing the convergence of communications and broadcasting.

A subsidiary of Japan Satellite Systems Inc. (JSAT), DMC Corp., is to
inaugurate satellite digital broadcasting next year via the eight
transponders of JSAT's satellite, JCSAT-3. The broadcasting with about
50 channels is scheduled to start in April, with full-scale
broadcasting service commencing in Autumn next year.

"Japan is just about to catch up with the world's trend toward digital
broadcasting," said Mr. Ken Churiki, vice president of DMC. "Our
objective is to realize digital broadcasting services with much higher
quality than our forerunners elsewhere in the world."

DMC, originally established in 1994 as DMC Planning Co., Ltd. in
preparation of the digital broadcasting business, decided to move to
an operating company last July to become a service provider of
satellite digital broadcasting. In accordance with its shift to being
a service provider, DMC increased its operating capital to =B41
billion, and plans to further increase this to about =B410 billion by
the next year. DMC's stocks are commonly shared with five companies,
each holding 20%: JSAT and four major general trading companies
including Itochu Corp., Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Nissho Iwai Corp., and
Sumitomo Corp.

While the uplink service of the satellite is handled by JSAT, DMC will
offer satellite digital broadcasting with about 50 channels of
programming initially. These services include scrambling and its key
control, billing and production of electronic program guide (EPG) and
promotion channel. DMC plans to increase the number of channels up to
100 in the future, upon consideration of market needs.

For possible competition with other broadcasting services, DMC aims at
"coexistence with cable TV for the realization of multichannel and
multimedia services with entirely new concepts," according to Mr.
Churiki.  Targeting mainly non-cable TV home-passed households, DMC
expects to acquire nearly two million subscribers, about 7% of
non-cable TV home-passed households, by the year 2000.

Regarding another possible competitor, BS (Broadcasting Satellite)
services, DMC itself doesn't feel menaced by it. "Because we think
digital broadcasting is an entirely new service beyond the
conventional concept of broadcasting," said Mr. Churiki. "This is a
means of multichannel and multimedia services."

For the realization of satellite digital broadcasting, MPT's advisory
body, the Telecommunications Technology Council (TTC), took action in
late July to facilitate the production of satellite digital
broadcasting systems. TTC submitted to the MPT minister a partial
report on technical requirements for the systems, such as for
information coding systems (encoding of video and sound programs),

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channel coding, modulation, framing structure and scrambling system.

In the TTC's recommendation, the information coding systems are to
adopt MPEG-2 which was standardized by the ITU. Scrambling systems are
unified so as to secure compatibility among receiving equipment, while
key control system for scrambling is open. Channel coding, modulation
and framing are to adopt the QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying)
system used by the European DVB.

In accordance with the TTC's recommendation, MPT has started working
on for establishment of related ministerial ordinances to allow
commercialization of the satellite digital broadcasting in April next
year.  And major consumer electronics companies, like Sony, Toshiba
Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., have started
development of receiving terminals and other required equipment for
satellite digital broadcasting to be in time for the service start.

Satellite digital broadcasting is, therefore, almost ready to launch
here technically. However, there is still a concern: whether there are
sufficient number of programs to attract many people. Toward this
concern, DMC is optimistic. "Possibility (of producing good quality
programs) itself is quite strong," says Mr. Churiki. "The point is to
make specified, segmented, and well-targeted programs. Like magazines,
if the contents are interesting, there is always room for new stuff."

For the concern regarding contents production and application
development, MPT also offers help. MPT is scheduled to establish the
Digital Broadcasting Center (tentative name) within this fiscal year
to help potential service providers acquire knowledge and expertise of
digital broadcasting technology, and to encourage more people to enter
this field.

"This is the field people in the industries expect much," says Mr.
Tomofumi Yasunari, MPT's Director of Digital Broadcasting Systems
Development Div. "Since digital broadcasting can be directly connected
with PCs, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), storage media and ATM
communications, it can realize multimedia services with convergence of
communications and broadcasting."

Securing a 1 billion yen budget in total for two years, the Center
provides facilities to the service providers for such technologies as
digital compression and multiplexing, and monitoring of digital
broadcasting. MPT anticipates the participation of the broadcasters,
entrusted broadcasters and communications service providers in the
Center's activities. "Through utilization of digital technologies, we
anticipate further growth of the media industry as a whole," said Mr.
Yasunari.

      --- end story ---

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Japanese telecommunications industry.  Send email to
ttribune@shrine.cyber.ad.jp for more information.

A sample of Telecom Tribune stories can be viewed via WWW at
http://www.tokio.co.jp/tel-trib/TTindex.html

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For the first time since 1975, it is now possible to set up call
forwarding to you own number.  This may sound like a "so what?" kind
of thing, but from the standpoint of 1ESS/1AESS sanity it is
significant.

I should point out that this has become possible in Atlanta because of
the upcoming split of the 404 NPA into 404/770.  And from the CO's
standpoint your are not forwarding to your own seven digit number
(that is still not possible), but rather to 404 + your seven digit
number.  I can call another number in my CO with seven digits, and the
call stays in my CO.  If I prepend a 404 to it, it goes out to the
LATA tandem and comes back.

The net result is that you make your line busy, and you get a reminder
ring every time someone calls your number.  This can be handy.

Now for the folklore.

In 1974 it *was* possible to set up call forwarding to your own seven
digit number in a 1ESS.  Back then generics went by the designation
"Centrex 2" as opposed to the current "1AE12" type of designation.  I
have no idea what generic my CO was running in 1974.

So after you set up forwarding to yourself, you were able to have some
real fun.  At least to a nineteen-year-old phone nut it was fun <G>.

If you called your number during the day, you got a *long* audit.  No
doubt a bunch of stuff spewed out of the model 33 maintenance terminal
at the CO, and the poor CO tech probably said something like "oh s**t,
its him again".  I think at times this may have caused a phase, but I
can't prove it.

After 6 PM, when you called your number you got sent off to AIS.  The
remarkable thing is that the number AIS read back was the number of
the last call processed by the 1ESS!  So you could amuse yourself for
hours by getting some *serious* SMDR from your serving CO.

I am told this bug had something to do with pointers to route index
zero.  Perhaps David G. can shed some light on why this happened.

BTW, this same generic allowed *free* IDDD calls from payphones.  I
made lots of friends in England that year :-)


Les     lreeves@crl.com       Atlanta,GA      404.874.7806


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The early ESS we had in Chicago back
in the middle 1970's also had bugs, but I don't think it ever allowed
you to forward to yourself; I can't remember. I do know one thing back
then disallowed was 'chain forwarding'. A could forward to B and B could
in turn forward to C; no matter, persons calling A *always* stopped at
B regardless of what B was doing. At the same time, calls to B would
always be forwarded to C. The theory was that B has the right to have 
his
calls forwarded to C if desired, however he has no right to speak for 
what A wants done with his. Now this is assuming all three parties A, B,
and C were on the same switch of course. The switch definitly knew how
B came to receive the call in question (whether to forward it per B's
instructions or drop it on B regardless). On calls that left the switch
however, things were different.  Our first ESS here was on the 'near 
north
side' in 1972. The first ESS downtown came in 1973 with the cutover of a
very antiquated stepping switch. They got rid of it first and left the
crossbar (which was still in reasonably good condition) for later. 

Opening day of the first ESS for downtown: I had WEbster-9-4600 in my
office; the nearby Sears, Roebuck store with the national Sears credit
card office in the same building on State Street had WAbash-2-4600. I
had a mere two line installation with a single phone with a turn button
for the two lines; Sears had a five position manual cordboard which
rocked around the clock literally; thousands of calls daily to the
credit office, etc. Guess what?  In the conversion process, someone got
their translations wrong, with calls to 922-anything actually winding up
on 939-the-same.  For two days running, my phone rang continuously with
people trying to get Sears. I would hang up on one wrong number and the
phone would ring again instantly. I must have gotten a couple thousand
calls, and no doubt Sears did not notice anything wrong at all. Once I
got through to repair service they promised to look into it right away
and they did fix it. A lot of 939 customers were affected, especially
those with numbers which related to *large* subscribers on 922 including
the Hilton Hotel (4400), the Chicago Police Administrative Offices 
(4747)
and Western Union (4321 for general offices, 7111 for message taking
operators). After moving out of that office downtown, I went several 
years
with crossbar service until about 1983 when Chicago-Rogers Park finally
got cut over.  PAT]

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I am working on an ISDN project to build an interface for a PABX.  I
don't need any of the fancy features that can be implemented with
other ISDN protocols.

I need the Q.931 (or I.451) series recommendation which is the ISDN user-
network interface layer 3 specification.

The ITU has a server with the Q and I series recommendations on it but
I can't seem to find the Q.931. I got the listserver to send me a Road
Map which is a couple months old and has Q.931 on it. But when I
request the file from the server it says that it can't fint it. I then
e-mail it for a listing of the Q-series directory but the Q.931 does
not have any file associated with it or a file reference number. I
have also not received any replies that I asked the listserver to
forward to the staff.

Could someone who possibly has the Q.931 specification or downloaded it 
previously please e-mail to me.

Thanks, I appreciate any help that can be provided.


e-mail to:
chana1@elaine.ee.und.ac.za

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I have two questions:

(1) how many different names are used for the octothorpe key; so far
    I've heard:

        cross-hash key
        cross-hatch key
        enter key
        hash key
        noughts-and-crosses key
        number-sign key
        octothorpe key
        pound key
        pound-sign key

    Anyone add to this list?

(2) what is the derivation for the term "pound key", since the symbol on
    telephones bears no similarity to that used for British currency.

    I would hazard to guess that the answer to this derives from 
confusion
    over the standard computer character set used in the UK, which 
differs
    from ASCII by only one character, decimal 35.  Then when asked "what 
is
    the symbol `#' called in the UK"...  (Of course, this is merely
    speculation on my part; maybe there's a better answer.)

      #   #             #
      #   #            # #
    #########          ##
      #   #            #
      #   #          #####
    #########          #
      #   #            #
      #   #           ########

    Octothorpe       Pound Sign



Martin D Kealey  36.88888S/174.72116E   ## Science Fiction Modellers' 
Club of
<martin@kurahaupo.gen.nz>               ## New Zealand     
<info@sfmc.org.nz>
voice +64-9-8150460  fax +64-9-8150529  ## all SF catered for; email for 
info


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: We covered this in excruciating, 
exhaustive
detail here once before, but I don't fault you if you can't remember it,
since it was several years ago.  Volume 8, issue 190 of this Digest, 
dated
December 1, 1988 was devoted entirely to theories about the naming of #.
This followed an inquiry just like yours in mid-November of that year, 
and
a number of reply messages which ran from then through the end of the 
month
and culminated in the special issue of December 1.

And no, I am not like Ann Slanders or her sister Scabby Van Buren. I do
not re-run letters I got years ago on days when the mail is a little 
light,
which it never is around here anyway. Mr. Kealey did write and ask the
question just recently. Anyone interested in 'How the Octothorpe Got its
Name' as that issue was called, can pull it from the Archives. Look in 
the
dusty old volume 8 stuff. Maybe I *should* re-run it. Opinions?   PAT]

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Every four year there are elections in the Netherlands, and because of
different reasons (bad weather or having to work) many people never
even bother to go to the polling booth. In order to make voting easier
the Dutch government made it possible last year for people who live in
the city of Utrecht to vote at the railway station, so they would be
able to do it on their way to work. Yet, many people don't travel by
train to work, and even if they do, they might not have the time at
the railway station to stand in line. Therefor the government is
currently considering the option of voting by phone. People who decide
to vote by phone will have to call a special access number.  The
number will be one of a 06 (900 type) kind, leading to the call
factory in Rotterdam. The call factory is a special exchange for
handling up to 1,6 million phone calls an hour.  At this moment most
time is invested in making sure the system is safe, and fraud will not
be possible.  If this system is going to be used in the future, the
Netherlands will be the first country to make televoting for
parliamentary elections possible.


Alex van Es
Alex@Worldaccess.NL, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Phone:+31-55-421184  Pager:+31-6-59333551 (CT-2 Greenpoint)
Voicemail: +31-6-59958458


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Suggestions -- and for that matter, full-
bodied, substantial proposals -- regarding 'vote by phone' have been
made here in the USA also, but nothing has come of it. All the usual
excuses ('there would be too much fraud', etc) have been tossed out as
reasons it would not work, even though fraud prevention techniques have
been provided.  Then there were the privacy freaks who insisted that
the tighter the fraud controls, the more likely there would be massive
invasions of privacy in the 'voting booth' if controls were established
identifying the phone number being used and some other personal 
identifier
such as social security number, etc. They can't seem to understand that
there *are* ways to identify the user and validate his *right to vote*
without necessarily examining the vote being cast. Nor can they seem to
understand that there are competent programmers who share a love for
their country and a sense of patriotism which would develop the needed
software in an instant -- as fraud-proof and fool-proof as the present
manual system if not more so -- if it meant that more Americans would
participate in the process. They would do so with a sense of integrity
and ethics which would *never* willfully violate anyone's privacy. 

Even starting on a small scale for 'beta testing' purposes seems to be
out of the question. The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners (an
independent government agency responsible for administering elections of
all sorts within the city) has been shown how telephone voting, either
with modem and computer or by touch tone buttons alone) would work quite
well. They have been shown how, with the cooperation of the banking 
network, voting could be done at any ATM machine. Of course *not 
everyone*
has an ATM card, and of course *not everyone* has a computer and modem,
but these would be two additional ways of 'getting out the vote'. They
have been shown how even in conventional voting booth arrangements, a
terminal hooked to their central computer could be used to eliminate a
huge amount of manual tabulating required, and the fraud that can 
accompany
same, to say nothing of being able to eliminate many of the 'middle-man'
election judges found at each polling place. 

They'll hear none of it ... which is odd, considering how desparate they
are getting to find voters these days. They do registrations now at all
sorts of places -- even at the Cook County Jail where they always get
*thousands* of voters each year for selected candidates -- just to round
up anyone they can who is willing and wants to bother to vote. They keep
harping on the fraud problem using phone voting, but believe me you, 
nothing compares to the fraud we have here now with the crooked election
judges and the low-level Democratic politicians who hang around the
polling places on election day, bringing in voters by the bus load from
old-people's homes, etc. We could have had tele-voting here years ago 
had
they wanted it. As they say in Chicago, 'vote early and often!'   PAT] 

------------------------------



I've seen one or two products that provide additional phone connections 
via AC wiring.  Will these devices provide enough bandwidth to service
a 14.4 laptop modem?


Thanks in advance,

Tom H IBM/Lotus/Soft-Switch

------------------------------



Is anyone aware of a new or proposed standard that enhances the
capabilities of ITU's V.34?  I beleive there may be a V.34bis in the
works.

I recently upgraded my USR V.Everything to 33.6 but have been unable
to connect to the USR BBS at a rate above 21.6.  Is the 33.6 a
proprietary USR standard or is it part of the proposed V.34bis?

Any insight, information or comments to the topic would be appreciated.


Matthew A. Earley
SUNYAB, Buffalo NY

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Searching for Senior-level telecommunications expert for a highly
confidential Head of Telecommunications position.  The company is a
MAJOR national transaction-based teleservicing organization.  Position
issues include: massive upgrade of the current system to include or
improve on digital switching system, intraflowing/loadsharing,
Automated Voice Response and front-end messaging.  Requirements:
technical telecommunications expertise in integrated phone systems,
digital switches, DID trunk lines, Sentrex lines, order fulfillment
and computer printout of transactions.  Travel among 16 phone centers
around the country.  MUST be confident of technical expertise and
leadership skills to handle strong internal personalities.  Salary
open.  Send confidential replies/resumes to my private mail box for
consideration.  I will respond to all inquiries.  Heavily experienced
only.


LRN

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I saw the following help wanted ad in the {Globe and Mail}, Toronto,
today, and thought that some Telecom readers might be intrigued by the

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possibility of working for Western Union.

 Senior Account Executive

 Do you have the proven success record to
 develop new business and increase market share?

Then set your sights on Western Union. We're the recognized leader in
money transfer and a dynamically evolving company where innovative
changes are occurring.

In this challenging position, you'll sell Commercial Money Transfer
prospects, coordinate/implement marketing programs, and assume overall
responsibility for meeting sales objectives.

To qualify, you must have at least five years' related business-to-
business sales experience. A Bachelor's degree in a business-related
field is preferred. Candidate must have a proven record in selling and
developing new business; some key account experience is preferred.

We provide a competitive sakary, comprehensive benefits package and
strong growth potential. To arrange for an immediate interview,
fax/mail your resume with salary requirements to:

Fax: (303) 449-3159
Western Union
2500 Pearl Street, Suite 310
Boulder, Colorado 80302

Western Union Money Transfer
The fastest way to send money worldwide

 
forwarded to the TELECOM Digest by
Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada   ndallen@io.org
http://www.io.org/~ndallen


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Memories .... memories. A typewritten
notice on the bulletin board in the high school cafeteria in 1956
offering employment: 

"Good job for a responsible boy or girl at least sixteen years old.
Good knowledge of geography is essential, along with accurate and fast
typing skills, good penmanship and ability to correctly count money
and make change. You'll learn to operate a telegraph machine in an
exciting new career with Western Union. Apply to the agent on duty at
the telegraph office, northeast corner of the bus terminal building
downtown. Bring a note of reference from your teacher or principal.
Work about ten or fifteen hours per week evenings and weekends. Starting
salary will be 95 cents per hour with a ten cent per hour raise in two
months if your work is satisfactory."

A friend of mine back then applied for the job and got it. He was
very pleased and proud of his position which was, in the pecking order
of things in those times, a much better job than working for example
as a movie theatre cashier (which was above being a movie theatre usher)
a dishwasher in a restaurant or a grocery bagger.  PAT]

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