PGM%vms.brighton.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (05/14/89)
A few comments on topics which came up in TELECOM Digest v9 i160 11 May 89 [ Please excuse me if I blunder - this is first digest I've received and I'm not "up" on some of your terminology. ] --- comments on Sci.commtech Bruce Klopfenstein <bgsuvax!klopfens@cis.ohio-state.edu> :- >> * new delivery technologies (direct broadcast satellites, digital >> video-on-demand, pay-per-view) What is "digital video-on-demand" please ? (different to pay-per-view?) I'd like it to be moderated, and distributed via LISTSERVers, too. It may be that it needs to be split further, but that'd be up to the moderator to decide... there are many subject areas there ! --- modem speeds vs carriers reliability survey Brian Jay Gould <gould@pilot.njin.net> :- >> has anyone ever attempted to chart data rate versus carrier? >> (for several modem types) Since we get most things late, I don't know whether a recent issue of "Data Communications" has covered this again. Past issues which had ratings of modems / carriers include carriers: Aug 87; modems: Sep 87, May 88 (fast), Oct 88. Oh yes - there was also a *big* feature in Aug 86 - the areas they measured may give you a head start on planning a questionnaire - though the data won't be of interest now. Why not get more money and do the survey for them, or did they ask anyway ? :-) --- 01 for London R.I.P. '90 Mark Brader <msb@sq.sq.com> SoftQuad Inc., Toronto >> This is reflected in the title of a TV show over there: "01 For London". A new one to me... maybe it is only shown on London TV. BT (British Telecom) took out large adverts in some papers recently. The ads show the current "exchange" part (01-XXX-1234) and how that will translate in the new number system. 0x1-XXX-1234 +44 x1 XXX 1234 x=8 for "Greater London", x=7 is "City" ( 4 mile radius ). I'm really *dreading* next Spring (junk mail) but some firms are outside London, thank goodness! I'll be getting the list of codes keyed in fairly soon. If you want a copy, or feel I should post a copy, just let me know. --- Peter. Peter Morgan, network supporter! | JANET: <pgm@uk.ac.brighton.vms> Brighton Poly. Computer Centre, | world: <pgm@vms.brighton.ac.uk> Watts Building, Lewes Road, | Dialcom: 10074:MIK1108 Brighton, BN2 4GJ, England. | FIDO: (use as last resort, please) +44 (273) 600900 x 2321 | <Peter.Morgan@f194.n253.z2.fidonet.org> [Moderator's Note: Welcome to the Digest readership, Peter. I hope to hear from you frequently. PT]