Telecom-Request%mit-mc@brl-bmd.UUCP (Telecom-Request@mit-mc) (02/09/84)
TELECOM Digest Thursday, 9 Feb 1984 Volume 4 : Issue 22
Today's Topics:
payment; call 0
Equal Access
friends on the "inside"
Interfacing mail systems
Re: TELECOM Digest V4 #18 (Communication Protocols)
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 84 11:05:08 EST
From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl-vld>
Subject: payment; call 0
1983 Birmingham, Alabama phone book (South Central Bell) mentioned
option of paying one's bills by bank draft plan, a free service which
saves time, trouble & stamps. I have heard of this occasionally being
done for apartment rents, but never before for phone bills.
On Friday (3 Feb.), I called operator from pay phone for an area code.
Signoff message was that I got some years ago when I called Amtrak's
tollfree number: "Thank you for calling AT&T (or Amtrak as the case
may be)".
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Date: 06-Feb-1984 1129
From: (John Covert) <decwrl!rhea!castor!covert@Shasta>
Subject: Equal Access
I have been told that the first equal access 1AE8 (Version 1AE8 of the
ESS generic provides "equal access") will be installed in Charleston,
West Virginia. I don't know the date.
Here in New England, the first 1AE8 will be installed this July in the
Back Bay machines, CG0 and CG1. The first update, 1AE8A is scheduled
for September, which will correct several problems already discovered
in 1AE8.
Equal Access permits the subscriber to declare a default carrier other
than AT&T on 1+ calls (the default may be a package of defaults
depending upon destination) and to override the default with 10XX
where XX is the desired carrier.
Rumor has it that the OCCs are not terribly interested in using equal
access; it will certainly cost them more and may drop their profit
margins.
The cost of access lines is due to be determined this week. This cost
determination will be the major force in determining whether the OCCs
will be able to survive.
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From: vortex!lauren at RAND-UNIX
Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 19:14:39-PST
Sender: Lauren Weinstein <vortex!lauren@RAND-UNIX>
Subject: friends on the "inside"
It always helps to have people inside the PUC (or wherever) who are
willing to talk "off the record" occasionally. The "public" and
"private" stories you get on varies issues often are a little
different... But this doesn't apply only to PUC's, but to the world
in general, of course...
--Lauren--
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Date: 7 February 1984 10:50 EST
From: "Marvin A. Sirbu, Jr." <SIRBU @ MIT-MC>
Subject: Interfacing mail systems
Packet network companies are in competition. They are trying to make
money. You don't make money if you don't carry the traffic. MCI mail
is not reachable via Tymnet because MCI has its own packet network
which it's selling as part of its mail service.
Similarly for interconnecting message systems. If as Tymnet I allow
my subscribers to receive mail from TeleMail users, then Telenet gets
the revenue for the connect time used up in composing the message. If
I don't interconnect, I may force the Telemail user to open a second
mail account on my Tymnet system.
But you say, there are lots of gateways betweeen Arpanet, Usenet, etc.
Yes, and none of these are profit making networks.
MS
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From: hgr%inuxd@BRL-BMD.ARPA
From: decvax!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxd!hgr@BRL-BMD.ARPA
Date: 7 Feb 84 06:54:42 CST (Tue)
Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V4 #18 (Communication Protocols)
The best single source of internationally accepted data communication
standards I have found is:
Data Communication Standards
Edited by Harold C. Folts
Edition II
McGraw-Hill Publications Co.
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
ISBN #0-07-021457-3 This book contains:
CCITT V.1, V.3 to 6, V.10, V.11, V.21 to 29 (including V.26bis,
V.27bis, and V.27ter), V.31, V.35, V.36, V.54, X.1 to 4,
X.20 to 22, X.24 to 29, X.75, X.87, X.92, X.121, and X.150.
ISO 646, 1155, 1177, 1745, 2022, 2110, 2111, 2593, 2628,
2629, 3309, 4335, 4902, 4903, 6159, and 6256.
ECMA 40, 49, 60, 61, 71, and 72.
ANSI X3.1, X3.4, X3.15, X3.16, X3.24, X3.25, X3.28, X3.36,
X3.41, X3.44, X3.57, X3.66, X3.79, and X3.92.
EIA RS-232-C, IEB 9, RS-269-B, RS-334-A, IEB 5, RS-363,
RS-336-A, RS-404, RS-410, RS-422-A, RS-423-A, RS-449,
RS-449.1, and IEB 12.
Federal Standards (FED-STD)
1001, 1002, 1003-A, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1010, 1011,
1012, 1013, 1020A, 1030A, 1031, 001033, 1037, and
interim 001041.
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS-PUB)
1-1, 7, 15, 16-1, 17-1, 18-1, 22-1, 35, 37, 46, 71,
and 78.
As you can imagine, this is a very thick book. But I have found it to
be a valuable resource of information.
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