Telcordia Gets HOT
Telcordia today announced that it had reached an agreement with Hydro One Telecom (HOT) to provide increased Operational Support Systems for the Canadian Broadband provider.
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Archive for 2009
Follow That Cab
So a few days ago by mistake I mis-dialed a toll free number. I reached 1-800-987-0768. Nothing there but some guy reading out what at first appears to be random numbers and then it redials a number. I call back again and same thing but new numbers…
We Sherlock for you
Speed dial another time and this time I record the call to get all of the digits. Telephone service is predictable so this mystery should be solved shortly. I record the call three times and here’s what it gets to;
- Call number 1: 800-23-711-409-3944
- Call number 2: 500-31-711-409-3944
- Call number 3: 200-56-711-409-3944
Random pattern of digits to the first five characters but could that be an NPA then NXX and number? I check out the NPA lookup for 711 and direct hit! The NPA is an area code reserved for Telecommunications Relay Services;
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) is a telephone service that allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls.
Now the numbers being dialed always ring busy so I cannot tell if they are intended to go to that actual 711 number location or if it’s dialing something else. Hmmm need my trusty DTMF decoder. While it’s possible that my DTMF decoder is on the fritz (not used for many years, though it tested good on my phone) it recorded what were, at best, random dialed numbers. So mystery remains…I hate being foiled on a case!
Bluster, Bluff and Braggadocio
On the eve of the FCC announcement of the proposed rules for net neutrality Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon Communications CEO, decided it was appropriate to float out a few gallons of FUD at the Supercomm 2009 in Chicago.
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Decision Action Event Threshold Part 2
Think | Act
One in a series of Leadership Articles to cause you to think and perhaps to act. Read other articles.
One in a series of Leadership Articles to cause you to think and perhaps to act. Read other articles.
You might recall in prior post we discussed the concept of the Decision Action Event Threshold (DATE). Check this out for a quick refresher course.
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Deloitte’s Fast 500
Deloitte published its 2009 Fast 500 listing. This list is a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the United States and Canada.
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DAVE’s Got Dollars
Banner day for DAVE Wireless. The newly minted wireless startup in OHANL just managed to bag C$125M in long term financing.
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Internet Grand Daddy(s)
So what is the oldest domain on the internet? If we had to guess we would have expected something like Bell Labs or AT&T. With internet traffic and users growing in exponential rates it is interesting to note that the internet grew very slowly for a long period of time.
So many domains—So little time
So among the usual suspects you would find the oldest domain being symbolics.com (a stunning 25 years in next March). Others represent a number IT and telco companies. One company that we’re surprised is not represented is CompuServe. Like many others we got our first taste of the rudimentary internet that existed in the early 1980 from providers like CompuServe. You can find the list of the oldest continuously registered domains here. A nostalgic view indeed.
Rollin’
A friend of ours, who is a regularly reader of our Weird Telecom posts, sent us this along for your viewing pleasure. We know it’s hard to think that folks would move cable reels into buildings this way but believe us it happens more than you can imagine—hopefully with a bit more planning than these guys.
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Cold But With Great Access
Now here’s an interesting move by Finland’s government. They are one of the most connected countries with what has been reported as a 96% connection rate. They’ve decided to step that up a notch further with three moves that seem almost incredible given the nature of the country itself.
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Broadband Data Costs
Ericsson just released an interesting report ,written by Greger Blennerud, that dispels a lot of mumbo-jumbo that routinely plagues the mobile data industry. Given Ericsson’s prominence in the industry, and the fact that they have built some of the worlds most populated networks, it bodes well that they predict that broadband costs have nowhere to go but down. From their analysis it seems that mobile data can be as cheap as borscht if you run your network correctly.
