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Re: Google Voice and Reciprocal Compensation on NPR [Telecom]

2009-11-07T21:50:22Z

Is that different from the kind of surcharge discussed here?
[link]
Dan Lanciani
ddl@danlan.*com

Re: Caller ID Device [Telecom]

2009-11-07T20:24:46Z

I did find the site.

Re: Caller ID Device [Telecom]

2009-11-07T18:04:57Z

If you add your own voice modem and windows computer a program called
Phone Tray Free will do the job.. It will handle multiple lines and
you can customize the response based on CID number or name. I use it
from a home file server that is always on, very little overhead.

Re: Shrinking directories [Telecom]

2009-11-07T18:01:23Z

When I moved to my first home in a small city (pop 30,000) we received a
single phone book that only covered that non baby bell territory. I
think at that time it was called Continental Telephone Co. of Upper New
York. You were SOL if you needed to look up a number in a county
location covered by one of 3 other local phone companies. Today we

Re: Overlay area code 872 to open, Chicago [Telecom]

2009-11-07T06:46:42Z

I didn't notice that Comcast made it possible to reach the test number
till the day before the mandatory dial date.
Whoa! Comcast isn't making us dial the 1 dialing prefix! Actually, it
never occurred to me to try to FNPA dialing without the dialing prefix
before.

Ported number database (was: Area code 533 assigned for personal communications services) [Telecom]

2009-11-07T06:37:57Z

So, is there a publicly accessible database of ported numbers? I know
the unsolicited call centers are required to purge their calling lists
of known numbers ported to cell phones, but has anyone made the
database available for single lookups?
And does the database include numbers ported from cell phone to land

Re: Google Voice and Reciprocal Compensation on NPR [Telecom]

2009-11-07T05:02:16Z

On Nov 2, 8:44 am, "har...@hallikainen.com" <har...@hallikainen.com>
This isn't reciprocal compensation, which by definition is the
cost-based rate paid by local exchange carriers to each other for
local calls. It's the older, costlier Switched Access system, by
which long distance carriers pay local carriers higher-than-cost

Re: Classic phone booth still in service [Telecom]

2009-11-06T21:59:22Z

Actually, there's a whole row of phone booths with ledge seats and
bi-fold doors in the HUB (Husky Union Building) at the University of
Washington in Seattle. Didn't check but it used to be a requirement
of pay phones in Washington Qwest territory that directories would be
provided (not surprising since DA from coin phones has always cost

Re: Area code 533 assigned for personal communications services [Telecom]

2009-11-06T21:53:40Z

Actually, there *is* a way to tell if a number is a mobile number or a
regular number. Go to [link]
and input a 10-digit number. The result will either give the name of
the mobile operating company or you'll get an error message that the
number you have input is not a wireless number.

Re: Google Voice and Reciprocal Compensation on NPR [Telecom]

2009-11-06T20:59:52Z

In message
<6a3e9b05-e67c-4291-aec8-efe3c 7266...@k19g2000yqc.googlegrou ps.com>,
[link] <NOTva...@Queensbridge.us> writes
That would imply Google voice implemented a rating/billing
system. Given that a very significant proportion (50%?) of a
conventional telco's operating costs are associated with call data

Re: Google Voice and Reciprocal Compensation on NPR [Telecom]

2009-11-06T04:01:12Z

On Nov 2, 8:44 am, "har...@hallikainen.com" <har...@hallikainen.com>
wrote:
Why doesn't Google Voice charge a toll to those changes?
Even if it determined that they are a phone company, there is no law
that says that free service has to be given to all customers for all
calls.

Caller ID Device [Telecom]

2009-11-06T01:15:30Z

A while back I asked about a device that allows blocking numbers using
CID, much like the old Radio Shack CID did. I lost the site address.

Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology [Telecom]

2009-11-05T18:11:34Z

Thanks. I didn't know that SBC had taken over Ameritech.

Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology [Telecom]

2009-11-05T05:13:55Z

Can you please be more specific with your question: ILEC or CLEC?
Post-divestiture AT&T or SBC-renamed-AT&T?
Illinois Bell/Ameritech/SBC was the ILEC in nearly all of Chicago and
suburbs and major downstate cities like Rockford, Springfield, some of the
Illinois side of the Quad Cities, and a lot of the Illinois side of the

Re: Western Union's satellite loss [Telecom]

2009-11-04T19:14:46Z

I worked for WU 30 years in Kansas City. I removed the last morse
station in 1968.