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TELECOM Digest     Tue, 29 Aug 95 14:07:00 CDT    Volume 15 : Issue 363

Inside This Issue:                           Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Book Review: "OS/2 Warp Internet Connection" by Morrison (Rob Slade)
    Enterprise Management Summit '95 - Keynotes (summit@ix.netcom.com)
    Free Fax Testing Service (Mike Rehmus)
    GSM Operators - Updated List (Robert Lindh)
    Usenet Like CB? No (Mike Wengler)
    Working Around Capacity Problems (Doug McIntyre)
    Nynex Blows it Again! (Tony Pelliccio)
    Employment Opportunity: Buffalo, NY  DSP, Modem, C (jobs@vocal.com)
    Early Dialing Into 1-888-555-1212, 1-888-888-8888 (Rich Szabo)
    How to Distinquish Local From Long Distance Numbers (Thomas Chen)

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BKOS2WIC.RVW   950615
 
"OS/2 Warp Internet Connection", Deborah Morrison, 1995, 1-56884-465-4,
U$24.99/C$34.99/UK#23.99
%A   Deborah Morrison
%C   155 Bovet Road, Suite 310, San Mateo, CA   94402
%D   1995
%G   1-56884-465-4
%I   IDG Books Worldwide
%O   U$24.99/C$34.99/UK#23.99 415-312-0650 fax: 415-286-2740 
kaday@aol.com
%P   233
%T   "OS/2 Warp Internet Connection"
 
For a product-specific book, this is not bad at all.  Basic Internet
concepts are covered without going overboard.  Many books mention RFCs
(Request For Comment documents), but few present information on how to
get them (and which ones to get) in as simple and useful a form.  The
definition of client/server isn't accurate (it doesn't work for X, for
example), but is good enough to be getting on with.
 
IBM wants, of course, to promote its own Internet Connection Service
as the Internet provider of choice, and the setup to ICS is the
simpler of the two.  They may, however, have taken simplicity a bit
too far.  If the book is correct, there is no provision for a modem
initialization string.  The directions for the use of other access
providers is quite clear, but it states that the IP address assigned
to the user is "required."  This would create difficulty for providers
that use dynamic allocation.  The script language for automated
calling is not described, although sample scripts appear to be
provided in Appendix B.
 
The description of the various applications (Gopher, World Wide Web,
email, news, telnet, and ftp) is basically limited to explanations of
the interface, although organized in a functional style.  Ironically,
one of the few exceptions to the "just the interface" tutorial
recommends the use of "block files" (apparently directly analogous to
the more common kill files) as providing censorship for those with
children.  There is no indication of any means to prevent said
children from removing this "protection."
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995   BKOS2WIC.RVW   950615. Distribution
permitted in TELECOM Digest and associated publications. Rob Slade's 
book reviews are a regular feature in the Digest.


Vancouver      ROBERTS@decus.ca         | "It says 'Hit any
Institute for  Robert_Slade@sfu.ca      | key to continue.'
Research into  rslade@vanisl.decus.ca   | I can't find the
User           Rob_Slade@mindlink.bc.ca | 'Any' key on my
Security       Canada V7K 2G6           | keyboard."

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Keynote speakers and events have been finalized for the Enterprise
Management Summit to be held this October 23-27 at the Dallas InfoMart.

** Managing Information In The Next Millennium ** 
Monday, October 23,    1:00PM

Don Haile, General Manager, IBM Networking Software Division, will take
the wraps off IBM's networking strategy for the rest of the 90s and
beyond. Mr. Haile will discuss practical networking and software
solutions as enterprises work to improve their bottom line by
exploiting new technologies. He will cover the impact of the Internet,
and the debate over true interoperability in the distributed
client/server environment. He will also discuss the growing role of
systems management tools and services to help enterprises obtain and
manage the information they want, when they want it, from wherever it
resides. 

Mr. Haile is responsible for the development of programming and support
of all IBM communications platforms. The Networking Software Division
contributes over $2.5 Billion in revenue annually. Mr. Haile has been
with IBM for 31 years, holding a number of management positions in
software development, telecommunications, systems management, and
operating systems. He was named by IBM Chairman, Louis Gerstner, to
IBMs Worldwide Management Council in 1994, and was appointed to the
Board of Directors of Siemens-Rolm Corporation in 1995.

** Microsoft's Back Office Strategy **
Tuesday, October 24, 1:00PM

Jonathan Roberts, Director of Windows NT Marketing for Microsoft
Corporation, sets the direction for Microsoft's entire networking and
enterprise management strategy including Back Office, a key component
of Microsoft's product direction as it expands beyond the desktop. In
one of the most important keynotes of 1995, Mr. Roberts will answer the
question that everyone has been asking, Is Microsoft going to be a 
player 
in the management arena or not? He will cover Microsoft's strategy for
Windows 95 and NT Advanced Server, as well as it's position with regard 
to 
developing management platforms and a comprehensive set of products that 
work across multiple systems, networks, and applications.

Before his present postion, Mr. Roberts was in charge of rolling out
Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, and Windows for Workgroups.Products under his
control include Windows NT, Windows NT Advanced Server, Daytona, Cairo,
Hermes, and SNA Server. 

** Making Enterprise Management Work - A Real World Perspective **
Wednesday, October 25, 10:15AM

Join the Chief Information Officers from five business sectors for a
discussion of the state of enterprise management today. These top CIO's
will include a look at the state of enterprise management in their
organizations and the benefits which they are realizing. They will also
take a look into the future, examine what areas represent the greatest
need to them, and outline which enteprise management technologies hold
the most promise. This keynote session is sponsored by {Network
Computing Magazine}.

Magazine}.

The Enterprise Management Summit '95 will be held this October 23-27 at
the Dallas InfoMart. Conference discounts and free exhibit passes are
available through our Systems Integrator sponsors (Booz-Allen and
Hamilton, Ernst and Young, SSDS, and LAN Systems). For more information 
(and phone numbers for conference discounts), visit the Summit Web
site at http://www.summit.micromuse.com, or contact the Summit. 

Phone: 800-340-2111, 415-512-0801.  Email: amotive@mcimail.com.

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We've upgraded our free TestBack<tm> fax testing service and you are
once again invited to try it.

Send a one page fax with data (data also gets tested and folks who
send blank pages are not getting all the information they could). It
would be nice, but not necessary, if you put your name and e-mail
address on the page so we can contact you if you have questions.  It
is so hard to sort blank pages to find yours!

You will receive a short report with major errors, if any,
pointed out.

To try this:

Fax a page to:  (510) 828-5617.
Wait 10 seconds (overseas no wait necessary)
Poll (510) 828-5617.

If you don't get the correct report, E-mail mrehmus@grayfax.com
and we'll try to find your report.  Blank pages excepted.

The way this works is that we receive the call, then analyze it after
the call is completed and make it available for the next Polling call.
This can have problems but we cannot think of another way to
accomplish this automatically without the possibility of other errors
creeping in or without greatly increasing the expense and engineering
time consumption.


Best regards,

Mike Rehmus   Gray Associates 

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(Changes in the list marked by "*")

Date 1995-08-23.

Country      Operator name          Network code   Tel to customer 
service
 ------      -------------          ------------   ----------------------
-
Andorra      STA
Argentina
Australia    Optus                  505 02         Int + 61 2 978 5678
             Telecom/Telstra        505 01         Int + 61 18 01 8287
             Vodafone               505 03         Int + 61 2 415 7236
Austria      PTV Austria            232 01
Bahrain      Batelco
Belgium      Belgacom               206 01         Int + 32 2205 4000
Brunei      
Cameroon
China
Croatia     
Cyprus       CYTA                   280 01
Denmark      Sonofon                238 02         Int + 45 80 20 21 00
             Tele Danmark Mobil     238 01         Int + 45 80 20 20 20
Egypt       
Estonia      EMT                    248 01         Int + 372 2639 7130
                                                   Int + 372 2524 7000
             Radiolinja Estonia     248 02
Fiji        
Finland      Radiolinja Finland     244 05         Int + 358 800 95050
             Telecom                244 91         Int + 358 800 7000
France       France Telecom         208 01         Int + 33 1 44 62 14 
81
             SFR                    208 10         Int + 33 1 44 16 20 
16
Germany      D1, DeTeMobil          262 01         Int + 49 511 288 0171
             D2, Mannesmann         262 02         Int + 49 172 1212
Gibraltar    GibTel                 266 01
G Britain    Cellnet                234 10         Int + 44 1753 50 45 
48
             Vodafone               234 15         Int + 44 1836 1100
Greece       Panafon                202 05         Int + 30 944 00 122
             STET                   202 10         Int + 30 93 333 333
Guernsey   * Guernsey Telecom
Hong Kong    HK HTCLGSM             454 04
             SmarTone               454 06         Int + 852 2880 2688
             Telecom CSL            454 00         Int + 852 2803 8450
Hungary      Pannon GSM             216 01         Int + 36 1 270 4120
             Westel 900             216 30         Int + 36 30 303 100
Iceland      Post & Simi            274 01         Int + 354 96 330
India        PT SATELINDO
Indonesia    TELKOMSEL              510 10
Iran         T.C.I.
Ireland      Telecom Eireann        272 01         Int + 353 42 31999
Israel       Cellcom Israel Ltd
Italy        Omnitel                222 10
             SIP                    222 01         Int + 39 6615 20309
Japan
Jersey       Jersey Telecom         234 50         Int + 44 1534 88 28 
82
Kuwait       MTC
Laos        
Latvia       LMT                    247 01         Int + 371 2256 7764
                                                   Int + 371 2256 9183
                                                   Int + 371 2934 0000
Lebanon      Libancell
Liechtenstein                       228 01
Lithuania    Mobilios Telekom
Luxembourg   Telekom                270 01         Int + 352 4088 7088
Macao
Malaysia    
Malta        Advanced
Marocco     
Monaco       France Telecom         208 01
             SFR                    208 10
Namibia      MTC
Netherlands  PTT Netherlands        204 08         Int + 31 50 688 699
New Zealand  Bell South             530 01
Nigeria
Norway       NetCom                 242 02         Int + 47 92 00 01 68
             TeleNor Mobil          242 01         Int + 47 22 03 03 01
Oman         
Pakistan    
Phillipines 
Portugal     Telecel                268 01         Int + 351 931 1212
             TMN                    268 06         Int + 351 1 793 91 78
Qatar        Qatarnet               427 01
Rumania     
Russia       Mobile Tele... Moscow                 Int + 7 271 00 60
             NW GSM, St. Petersburg
SaudiArabia 
Singapore    Singapore Telecom      525 01
Slovenia    
South Africa MTN                    655 10         Int + 27 11 445 6000
             Vodacom                655 01         Int + 27 82 111
Sri Lanka    MTN Networks Pvt Ltd
Spain        Airtel
             Telefonica Spain       214 07
Sweden       Comviq                 240 07         Int + 46 586 686 10
             Europolitan            240 08         Int + 46 708 22 22 22
             Telia                  240 01         Int + 46 771 91 03 50
Switzerland  PTT Switzerland        228 01         Int + 41 46 05 64 64
Syria        SYR-01                 223 01
             SYR MOBILE SYR         263 09
Taiwan      
Thailand     TH AIS GSM             520 01         Int + 66 2 299 6440
Turkey       Telsim                 286 02
             Turkcell               286 01         Int + 90 800 211 0211
UAE          UAE ETISALAT-G1        424 01
             UAE ETISALAT-G2        424 02
Uganda
Vietnam

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PAT discoursed on how the USENET had become like CB at its worst.

The USENET and the Internet both are fascinating things themselves,
but are also meta-fascinating as various pundits analyze them as
though they were something else already known.  Is it a telephone
network?  A mail system?  A newspaper?  A library?  PAT suggests
USENET is like radio spectrum in his last effort, and recently like CB
radio in the seventies.

However, the important differences are overwhelming.

1) you can always start a new newsgroup ... there are around 5,000
available to most people now.  Compared to 40 (?) CB channels with no
new ones in sight.  And the USENET channels are very different from
each other, based on name/subject matter.  Many of us are happy with
the groups we read ... alt.dcom.telecom and alt.cellular.technology in
my case are fine.  Very little SPAM or noise, no forged cancels, etc.

2) USENET can be changed.  That cancels are so easily forgeable is
just the way the news protocols have been defined.  Almost without
doubt, these protocols will be enhanced and USENET will survive.
"Death of the USENET predicted, news at 11" is one of the
quintessential self-referential cliches of the USENET which give it
its unique charm.  "Secure News" or SNEWS is the buzzword for the next

_
                                                                                                                      

generation.  With CB, there wasn't much chance of changing broadcast
or reception protocols to protect against the "Spam" PAT described, so
it was CB itself which died.

Of course, PAT must not be faulted for his attempt at "The USENET is a
phone group.  No, the USENET is a magazine.  No, the USENET is a
soapbox.  No, the USENET is CB Radio."  The USENET is new, and we
don't have a consensus on how or even whether it should be regulated.
The USENET has problems.  We are being assaulted by the 
psychotic/commercial 
interests of scientology, and the "for your own good with a gun"
interests of congress.  We BETTER start comparing USENET to something,
hopefully something which is protected from interference, so we can
buffalo the g-men into protecting it for us, from themselves and
others.  (Is g-man for government-man or gun-man?)

But really, cancel forgeries need to get fixed in the software, not in
terms of getting people to behave differently.  And the new software
is being debated and developed, even as we continue to exist in our
warm fantasy of free, non-commercial speech.

IMHO of course, as always.


Mike Wengler

Save $1 on every Travel Card call, info and application at
http://www.he.net/~wengler/VoiceNet/

Phone/Fax: 716 244-0238          Cell: 716 748-1930

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What do people do to get large numbers of phone lines, especially
when, say US West, won't plan ahead for capacity? Right now we have
about 240 phone lines coming in, but can't get any more until US West
decides where to drop a pair gaining switch into our premises. Up
until this point they were content with dropping us copper, (in fact,
that was their only solution, they don't mux out T-1's anymore, or
anything), but now that all distribution pairs in the street are used
up, they don't know what to do. We've been pushing on them for us
needed a large number of phone lines since last year when we moved
into this building, and we've been putting in large orders scheduled
out two or three months in advance, and then cutting them back the day 
before
they are scheduled to what we needed at that point, but until they ran
out of wires in the street, they did nothing to plan out.

The pair gain switch is scaring me, since all lines are data lines, and
I've seen other installations where you can't get full speed out of 
28.8 v.34 modems going through an SLC. Typically getting 24k or 26.4k
connections max.

I've been waiting now for two months on my last line order with still 
no lines in sight for them to drop. (Also having problems getting 
DDS lines as well, I have no idea where they think they are going to
be getting T-1's to pair gain off of). 

What are my options? (I am already considered buying a channel bank,
but that seems to be extreme, just to work around US West's problems)
to get US West to deliver on lines? The tarrif states that they have
to get us lines, but doesn't specify a time frame.  


Doug McIntyre   merlyn@winternet.com

Write to info@winternet.com for more information about Winternet's
Internet services and dialups. 

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



Just thought I'd relate how technically backward the folks at Nynex
are.  Caller-ID was recently made available to most of Rhode Island
but here are some problems with it:

a) It's calling number and date/time delivery only. Duh - I don't need
time/date but the name would be nice. Good going Nynex!

b) A call from an associate in MA shows as OUT OF AREA. I called my
long distance provider (who is also the friend's LD provider) and
they've verified that their network will indeed pass Caller-ID
information along. I call Nynex and ask them what the deal is. Turns
out, according to some droid that Nynex "Doesn't have the technology
to do that.".

I wish Mary Alice Williams would stop talking about "Nynex Now!" and
start talking about the real problems with what I propose is the worst
telephone company around other than GTE.


Tony Pelliccio, KD1NR     tonypo1@delphi.com

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VoCAL Technologies, Ltd., Amherst, New York

VoCAL Technologies, a communications software technology firm is
seeking highly motivated engineers and programmers to fill positions
made available due to expansion of the company.

Highly competitive salary and incentive program for top-notch employees.

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

Electrical Engineer -   Full time BSEE or MSEE C and Assembler 
programmer.
                        Experience in embedded systems and DSP's a plus.
                        Must be very comfortable with assembly language
                        programming.

Electrical Engineer -   Full time BSEE or MSEE Digital Signal 
Processing.
                        1 year minimum DSP experience required.
                        Background course work in speech processing,
                        image processing, or communications is 
preferable.

Programmer -            Full time.  C programming for the PC.  Must have
                        Windows application development and low level 
                        hardware I/O software experience.

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

Interested applicants should email or mail their resume in confidence 
to:

                        jobs@vocal.com

                        Human Resources
                        VoCAL Technologies, Ltd.
                        1576 Sweet Home Road
                        Amherst, NY 14228

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When I tried calling the above-mentioned numbers, I received the
following: 

  1. Bo-doo-weep tones
  2. Harsh noise for about ten seconds
  3. click then silence

Curiously, the "SPKR" LED on my ATT Speakerphone then sort of FADED
away slowly, but the "LINE IN USE" LED stayed on.  Normally, when I
get the CPC reverse polarity after a hangup on the speaker phone, the
"SPKR" LED goes out followed by the "LINE IN USE" LED.


Rich Szabo


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Here in northern Illinois, Ameritech is
not yet programmed to recognize 888 as an area code. When I tried your
experiments here, dialing 1+888, etc, it went to the message saying
'When calling a number inside your area code dial only the seven digits.
When calling a number outside your area code dial 1 plus the area code
and the seven digits.'  Interestingly though, throughout the entire
intercept message (and even for a couple seconds before it started) 
there
was a constant 'clicking' noise, or perhaps 'ticking' noise at about two
second intervals. The 'when calling a number' intercept message is very
common; it always plays out when a one is entered before a non-working
area code; but for whatever reason when 888 is selected you get that
tick/click sound along with it which is not part of the recording. It
sounds in a way like someone taking a phone on and off hook repeatedly
at about two second intervals.    PAT]

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How can one determine whether certain numbers are within the calling
area and certain numbers are not?

For instance, I am in 301.294.xxxx and if i call 301.762.xxxx
its a local call. If I call 202.xxx.xxxx, its also a local call, but
if I call 301.428.xxxx, its a toll call. Is there any information
online about how the calling areas are divided? Can one from the first
six digits (npa) figure out which calling area he belongs to?  Is there
any logic to those numbers (sequential??? correlate to zip code?)


tom


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Your best bet is to ask the local telco
what is and is not part of your calling area. This gets very messy and
could (and has) consumed much time and space here as we go round and
round on the variances from one community to the next. If you ask, your
local teleco will supply you with a list of all the exchanges which are
considered part of your local calling area; you may assume exchanges not
listed are toll calls.   PAT]

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