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TELECOM Digest Wednesday, 28 Dec 1983 Volume 3 : Issue 128 Today's Topics: PTC'84 preview. More on the Balto-Wash area Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #122 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 83 16:41:53 pst From: cunningh%CCVAX@Nosc Subject: PTC'84 preview. PTC'84, the 6th annual conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council meets January 8-11, 1984, at the Shearaton-Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu. This year's theme is "Telecommunications for Pacific development". The Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC), is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the development of telecommunications in the Pacific hemisphere. Members are primarily telecommunications multi-national carrier corporations, governmental PTT's, plus representatives from various and sundry insititutes (e.g. MITI). The main thing the PTC does is to hold these annual conferences, and publish the proceedings. As usual, the upcoming conference will feature extensive discussions of policy issues, with only a limited number of technical sessions. Featured speakers are: Tetsuro Tomita, deputy director-general MPT Japan; Basil Beneteau, vice chairman Northern Telecom; Olof Lundberg, director-general, INMARSAT; Colin Franklin, director-general, space programs and industry development, department of communications, Candada; Julio Polloni, subsecretaria de telecommunicaciones, Chile; and Saburo Okita, former foreign minister of Japan. Comsat, Intelsat and the CCIT will be represented, as usual; unlike last year, none of their directors will be featured speakers. Space in the exhibition hall is sold out. American Bell, AT&T, GTE, Hughes, IBM, NEC, Northern Telecom, Pacific Telephon, RCA, Rotelcom, and Western Union -- among others -- are represented. I'll be attending part of PTC'84, as a recorder for the Pacific Science Association Communications and Education Committee sub-sessions. I'll post any interesting developments here to the TELECOM Digest. If anyone out there is interested in attending, the conference fee is $375 in advance (payable to the PTC), or $400 at the door. Bob Cunningham, University of Hawaii ------------------------------ Date: 27 Dec 1983 1120-EST From: John R. Covert <RSX-DEV at DEC-MARLBORO> Subject: More on the Balto-Wash area I just called the "Let's talk-we can help" number in Washington (in case you're not familiar with this - 800 555-5000 gets you the "Let's talk" number for your local operating area). It seems that Judge Green decided on 7 December that those people in the Baltimore-Washington corridor (e.g. Columbia) would be allowed to continue to have new or existing FX service. Places to the northwest and south are not included, but C&P claims that they are looking for a vendor to provide the service so that the customers will not have their service interrupted. This seems easy for customers with true physical FX service. I still wonder how they plan to serve the customers with "split-office" service. Theoretically C&P could assign a trunk group in the split office to either another carrier or a consortium of carriers. These carriers would provide trunks into a tandem inside the metro area. They would have to provide the same grade of service as C&P provides now. It's interesting that this problem will not exist in the New York Metro Area. The New York LATA extends all the way to the tip of Long Island in the East and beyond West Point in the North. This is roughly the same distance as from Washington to Philadelphia. In addition, local service provided across state boundaries which cross a LATA boundary (such as Tyngsboro, Mass to Nashua, New Hampshire) are permitted to remain in service. ------------------------------ From: tektronix!tekig1!dont%decvax@BRL-BMD.ARPA From: decvax!tekig1!dont@BRL-BMD.ARPA Date: Monday, 26 Dec 83 14:04:30 PST Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #122 I am not sure that this deserves to be included in the next digest, but you might ask around for some substantiation. I recall reading that the "blue box" problem was realized when the original concept of the switching system was on the drawing boards. The guy who designed most? of the system is suppossed to be on record somewhere, (inside bell?), saying that control tones dumped down the line would have the possibility of siezing control of the system. This all came to an end with the ESS. The system is now capable of detecting this immediately and logging the information. <<< I dont remember where I read this, but I seem to remember that this was written by the designer of the system, after the ESS installations were well under way. >>> Don Taylor tektronix!tekig!tekig1!dont ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest *********************