TELECOM Digest     Tue, 6 Dec 94 11:08:00 CST    Volume 14 : Issue 438

Inside This Issue:                          Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Philadelphia Police 911 Call Transcript (rec.radio.scanner via 
Steve
Brack)
    Bell Canada Rate Changes (Bell Canada News via Dave Sellers)
    PacBell Not Aiming to "Please" (David Leibold)
    Who is SRX in Plano Texas? (John Einstoss)
    Articles on 800 Pay Services and Cordless Phones (Danny Burstein)

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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 94 10:09:09 -0500
From: Steve Brack <sbrack@cse.utoledo.edu>
Subject: Philadelphia Police 911 Call Transcript (from 
rec.radio.scanner)


This is the full text of the Philadelphia Police 911 tapes regarding
the recent incident which unfortunately resulted in the death of a
teenage boy.  According to published accounts, the speed of response
to citizens' repeated calls to 911 is being held partly to blame for
his death.

Presented as read on rec.radio.scanner.
Thanks to scan911@aol.com for posting this transcription.


Steven S. Brack         sbrack@eng.utoledo.edu 
Toledo, OH  43613-1605  sbrack@cse.utoledo.edu
Tel: +1 419 534 7349 

               =======================================

  From: scan911@aol.com (SCAN911)
  Newsgroups: rec.radio.scanner
  Subject: Philly POLICE 911 call transcripts
  Date: 3 Dec 1994 14:15:04 -0500
  Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)

Here's a transcript of the now-famous Philadelphia Police 911 calls in
which dispatchers were cited as rude.  The rudeness is at 10:44:23.
Enjoy!

Chuck Gysi, N2DUP
SCAN911@aol.com

                 
10:01:25 p.m.
dispatcher: Police 225.
Caller: Hi. I'm sorry to call you, but could you please send a car to 
the
McDonald's at the corner of Hasbrook and Oxford?
Dispatcher: On the corner of Hasbrook and where?
Caller: Oxford. It's in Fox Chase.
There are a pack of kids and they're really noisy.
Dispatcher: Inside the McDonald's?
Caller: They're in the parking lot.
Dispatcher: OK, the McDonald's parking lot.
Caller: Thanks so much.
Dispatcher: You're welcome. Bye.

10:10:19 p.m.
dispatcher: Police radio [inaudible.
Caller:: Ah yes, I'm calling from the McDonald's at Fox Chase on 
Oxford
Avenue.
Dispatcher: Uh-huh.
Caller: I have a bunch of kids in the parking lot and they just broke 
one
of my customers' windows.
Dispatcher: Where's the customer?
Caller: She's out in the parking lot and she was going through the
drive-through and they broke one of her windows.
Dispatcher: Is she going to wait for the police?
Caller: I'm sorry.
Dispatcher: Is she going to wait for the police?
Caller: Well, how long is it going to be?
Dispatcher: I have no idea.
Caller: Uhhh, I'll find out, but I imagine she would. She could fill 
out a
report. OK.
Dispatcher: Uh-huh.
Caller: OK. Thank you.

10:13:58 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police radio. May I help you?
Montgomery County dispatcher: Hi, it's Montgomery County. We have a 
report
of a disturbance at Borbeck and Oxford.
Dispatcher: OK. On the highway?
Montco dispatcher: On Borbeck.
Dispatcher: On the street or inside somewhere ?
Monaco dispatcher: Juveniles throwing rocks -- at the McDonald's.
Dispatcher: At the McDonald's?
Monaco dispatcher: Yeah, there's about 20 of them.
Dispatcher: All right, we'll send somebody out there.

10:20:49 p.m.
Caller: Could you send some police over here to 7979 Rockwell Avenue?
About 50 kids are busting up cars [Inaudible]
Dispatcher: What are they doing?
Caller: Busting up the cars, windows and everything . . . 7979 
Rockwell
Avenue.
Dispatcher: Uh-huh. Wait a minute. They are inside the lot?
Caller: Yeah.
Dispatcher: Teenagers?
Caller: Yep.
Dispatcher: About how many is there?
Caller: About 50.
Dispatcher: All righty.

10:33:58 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 232.
Caller: Hi, this is the Oxford Avenue Pizza Hut. We have a gang of at
least 50 young kids with bats outside beating each other, chasing each 
other.
They Just ran behind the store.
Dispatcher: How many have bats?
Caller: About 10.
Dispatcher: What hundred Oxford is?
Caller: What hundred Oxford is this? 78. They are between our store 
and
the McDonald's.
Dispatcher: In the parking lot?
Caller: Yep. Yes, in between both parking lots.
Dispatcher: OK.
Caller: Thank you.
Dispatcher: You're welcome.

10:37:15 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 225.
Caller: I don't believe this -- this rang about 10 times. There's a 
big
commotion going on outside our home. Like a gang fight.
Dispatcher: Where is that, ma'am?
Caller: Ridgeway Street. 7900 Ridgeway Street.
Dispatcher: OK.Caller: They got clubs out there. [It's a gang fight, 
says
a
male voice in the background.] There's a kid hurt out there.
Dispatcher: All right.
Caller: Did you get that?
Dispatcher: Yeah, a kid is hurt outside and there's a fight. All 
right?
Was that it?
Caller: Yeah, that's it. Send a police car to Seven
Dispatcher: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You asked me 
and
I'm asking you. I have the information, you can hang up now.

10:37:34 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 244.
Caller: Thank you. I'm calling from the Fox Chase section of the city.
There seems to be a lot of gang fighting in front of my house. 7900 
block of
Ridgeway Street. It's just above the recreation center. A lot of 
screaming,
yelling, and kids look like they are carrying clubs of some kind. They 
are
in the middle of the street. 
Dispatcher: I'll send someone out.
Caller: Thank you.

10:37:50 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 45. How can I help you ?
Caller: Hi, I live across the street from the Fox Chase School and the
playground and there is a tremendous amount of kids out there fighting 
and
 ... I'm afraid something's going to happen.
Dispatcher: OK, Fox Chase playground. What's the address?
Caller: Uh, it's, well, right now they're in front of Ridgeway and 
Rhawn
in front of the school but they just keep growing and they keep 
talking about
a fight ...
Dispatcher: OK. Ridgeway and what's the other street you mentioned 
madam?
Caller: Rhawn.
Dispatcher: Oh, OK. We'll send somebody out.
Caller: Hurry up because I don't know what's happening, there's a lot 
of 
screaming and yelling.
Dispatcher: Yeah, OK. Bye-bye.

10:38:25 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 170.
Caller: Hi, I'd like to report a disturbance . . .
Dispatcher: Where?
Caller: Ridgeway Street.
Dispatcher: What and Ridgeway?
Caller: 7940 Ridgeway Street. There's about 20 kids outside fighting.
Dispatcher: We'll send somebody around.
Caller: Thanks a lot.

10:41:01 p.m..
Dispatcher: Police radio.
Caller: Yeah. Could you get a couple of cars over here, 7979 Rockwell
Avenue. There's about 50 teenagers, baseball bats. A gang fight down 
in
the complex between the Fox Chase playground and the auto body area.
Dispatcher: 7979 Rockwell?
Caller: Yeah.
Dispatcher: We'll get somebody right over.

10:41:21 p.m.
Dispatcher [alerting police officers]: 203 . . . 7845 Oxford at the 
Pizza
Hut/McDonald's parking lot. Check for civil males all with baseball 
bats. 
7845 Oxford. Parking lot McDonald's and Pizza Hut. There's no flash.
Police: 28.
Dispatcher: 28.
Police: We'll swing by that location.

10:41:24 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 157. What's your problem?
Caller: Yeah, I just want to let you know. I live across from the Fox
Chase playground.
Dispatcher: Yeah.
Caller: And there's about 25 youths right now running around, yelling
obscenities, yelling about niggers and everything else. They are 
running
through people's yards and all. I don't know if something's going on
tonight or not, but ...
Dispatcher: Somebody will be there, sir.
Caller: Thank you.

10:42:32 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 170.
Caller: Hi, how ya doing. This is . . . I'm in Fox Chase and we've got 
a
near riot and there's no damn police around.
Dispatcher: Where? Where?
Caller: On Ridgeway Street!
Dispatcher: Well, I don't know that!
Caller: We've been calling. Everybody in the neighborhood's been 
calling.
I call the district, they tell me to call 911. What are we suppose to 
do
here? There's cars. There's a whole damn convoy of cars coming up 
here. 
You got a damn riot goin' up here. 
Dispatcher: Police will be there.
Caller: Yeah, huh. Thanks a lot

10:44:13 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 244
Caller: Yes. This is one of the sisters at St. Cecilia's Convent on 
Rhawn
Street. There's a bunch of kids out in the parking lot and it looks 
like
they are beating up one kid.
Dispatcher: 500 Rhawn, madam?
Caller: 525 Rhawn.
Dispatcher: In the parking lot?
Dispatcher: We'll send someone out.
Caller: Thank you.

10:44:23 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 94
Caller: We're in Fox Chase on Ridge way Street. They are beating the 
hell 
out of people with baseball bats up here. When are you going to send 
somebody?
Dispatcher: Who's got a bat, sir?
Caller: Who got a bat? Some gorilla. What the hell do you mean?
Dispatcher: Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Don't talk to me like that. 
I
asked you a question.
Dispatcher: Who's got the bat? Is he white, black or Hispanic?
Caller: There's a man with a bat ...
Tape ends.

10:44:37 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 232.
Caller: Hello?
Dispatcher: Police.
Caller: [inaudible].
Dispatcher: Where?
Dispatcher: This is at Rhawn and what?
Caller: At Rhawn Street. St Cecilia.
Dispatcher: OK, but that's Rhawn and what. What's the cross or what
hundred block of Rhawn.
Caller: It's St. Cecilia schoolyard.  [Inaudible].
Dispatcher: Yeah, what hundred block of Rhawn Street is it on, sir.  I
can't hear you because there's something wrong with the phone. You're 
saying
Rhawn, and it's by what?
Caller: I'm trying to find a cross street ..... What street is this
[caller speaks to someone in the background]?
Dispatcher: Look at one of the buildings and tell me the address on it
Caller: Yeah, it's on Rhawn and [inaudible].
Dispatcher: Rhawn and what?  Look at one of the buildings and tell me 
the
address on it.
Caller: 500 Rhawn Street
Dispatcher: 500?
Caller: Rhawn Street. A [inaudible] just went by.
Dispatcher: Where's he at? [Get an address, says another voice in 
radio
room]
Dispatcher: OK.

10:45:37 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 157.
Caller: Hello?
Dispatcher: Yes, police.
Caller: My friend, my friend's bleeding. He's at [inaudiblel hospital.
Dispatcher: He's what?
Caller: He's at [inaudiblel hospital.
Dispatcher: Slow down, he needs what at the hospital?
Caller: I mean. [inaudible] He needs a hospital. He's bleeding.
Dispatcher: Where's he at?
Caller: He's at St. C's. At the church.
Dispatcher: He's where?
Caller: St. Cecilia's.
Dispatcher: I can't understand you? Give me an address?
Caller: He's at St. Cecilia's.
Dispatcher: And where's that at?
Caller: Oxford Avenue.
Dispatcher: Oxford and what?
Caller: It's like. Oh my god.
Dispatcher: Listen, listen, if you don't calm down, he gets no help. 
Do
you understand that much?
Caller: I'm trying.
Dispatcher: All right, so you gotta tell me. Oxford and where?
Caller: Oh God. Do you know where Fox Chase School is?
Dispatcher: No, I don't.
Caller: OK, it's, it's Oxford Avenue and Verree.
Dispatcher: Verree. All right, what happened to him?
Caller: He got beat with a bat.
Dispatcher: All right. Are the people that beat him still there?
Caller: No!
Dispatcher: Hold on. I'm gonna connect you with rescue, you tell them
where he is.
Caller: OK.
Rescue: Rescue.
Caller: [inaudible] got beat with a bat.
He's at [inaudiblel church.
Rescue: What?
Caller: St. Cecilia's.
Rescue: What's your address. What's the address. Where's it at?
Caller: It's right across the street from the [inaudible] school, 
which is
right by ... Rhawn.
Rescue [to dispatcher]: Please, could you tell me where she's calling
from?
Dispatcher: She's calling from 501 Rhawn Street by the Free Library.
Caller: Yeah, I'm at the Free Library, but ... is at St. Cecilia's 
Church.
Dispatcher: She told me it was at Oxford and Verree, first. She can't 
seem
to get it together.
Rescue: Is that where St. Cecilia's is? Oxford and Verree?
Caller: It's, it's . . . Where are you at?
Dispatcher: Don't worry about where we're at. Tell them where you're 
at.
Where you want him to go?
Caller: [Inaudible] I don't know the two streets. Right now, I'm at 
the
library, but St. Cecilia's at ...
Rescue: How far are you away from it?
Caller: He's at, I think he's at Rhawn and [inaudible] Street.
Rescue: Rhawn and where?
Caller: I think it's [inaudible, but I'm not sure. It's at St. 
Cecilia's
Church. He's right in front of the church.
Rescue: And what's wrong? What happened?
Caller: He got beat with a bat.
Rescue: He got beat with a bat?
Caller: He's bleeding.
Rescue: It's right near Rhawn and [inaudible.]
Dispatcher: No, no. It's not a good cross street. She's probably 
talking
about Rhawn and Verree.
Caller: It's at St. Cecilia's Church. He's right at the church.
Dispatcher: Rhawn and Verree is close to where she's calling from.
Rescue: We're on the way.
Caller: Thank you.

10:45:53 p.m.
Police officer: 203.
Dispatcher: 203.
Police officer: Send rescue to the Seventh District side right at 
Rhawn


and Ridgeway in front of a church. We've got a kid down. I think he
was beat
up. It could possibly have something to do with that Oxford Avenue 
thing.
Dispatcher: You said Rhawn and Ridgeway?
Police Officer: Correct. On the Seventh District side. [inaudible] 
rescue, 
please.
Dispatcher: Thank you.

10:45:59 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 170.
Caller: Hi, Could you send a car to Fox Chase Rec.
Dispatcher: Where's that?
Caller: Um. It's on, uh, Rockwell Avenue. There's a bunch of people in
cars and they are coming out and beating people up.
Dispatcher: OK.
Caller: It's really bad. Can you hurry?
Dispatcher: OK.

10:46:22 p.m.
Dispatcher: Police 344.
Caller: Hi. We're having a problem outside our house here.
Dispatcher: What's your address.
Caller: Ok. It's not on my street. It's at St. Cecilia's on Rhawn 
Street.
In the rectory. In the schoolyard.
Dispatcher: What's the address there?
Caller: OK. 525 Rhawn Street.
Dispatcher: 525 Rhawn?
Caller: Right.
Dispatcher: Is it R ...
Caller: R-H-A-W-N! We've got kids they've beat up. And no one wants to
help us!
Dispatcher: I'm trying to help you madam. I have to first understand 
you.
Caller: Rhawn. R as in robot. H as in health. A as in apple. W as in 
[inaudible] and N as in [inaudible]. Does that help?
Dispatcher: Immensely. Now, can you continue? What's the problem 
there?
Caller: We've been calling for 20 minutes now to get the cops up here 
and
no one's come.
Dispatcher: So, what, what's, what madam. Madam?
Caller: I'm near the Fox Chase Rec.
Dispatcher: Madam, what's going on out there?
Caller: I've been telling you ...
Dispatcher: You haven't told me what's going on?
Caller: We have like a group of 50 kids out front, about.
Dispatcher: Uh-huh. What are the kids doing, madam?
Caller: Well, a few of them have golf clubs. And then this one little 
boy
just came down and said to us someone's beating him up with a baseball 
bat.
Dispatcher: We'll send the police, madam.
Caller: Pardon me.
Dispatcher: We will send the police.
Caller: Send them now, not in 10 minutes, but now.
Dispatcher: We will send the police, madam.
Caller: Thank you. Do you know where it is?
Dispatcher: You said 525 Rhawn madam. That's what you said, didn't 
you?
Caller: Yes.
Dispatcher: OK, that's where we're gonna send them.
Caller: Thank you.
Dispatcher: You're welcome.

10:46:32 p.m.
Police: Have a rescue [inaudible] in and out of consciousness.
Dispatcher: All right, 03. Rescue's in route. They got the message.

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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 94 10:01:12 EST
From: sellers@on.bell.ca (Dave Sellers)
Subject: Bell Canada Rate Changes


 ----- Begin Included Message -----
Publication:      News Release                            Community: 
COMM
Article Subject:  Bell Canada's prices are
Author:           Linda C. Gervais                        Issued:    
94-12-01
 
 
              Bell Canada's Prices Are Changing
          for Long Distance and Basic Local Service
 
Ottawa, December 1, 1994 -- Come January 1, 1995, Bell Canada's
residence and small business customers will be able to save even more
on their long distance calling.  Bell is introducing savings of up to
35 per cent, depending on when and where customers call.
 
The decreases are included in a rate rebalancing proposal Bell and
Canada's other telephone companies filed today with the Canadian
Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
 
Along with January's long distance decreases, basic local service
prices for all residence and many business customers will increase by
$2 per month.
 
Business customers in the local calling areas of Montreal, Toronto,
Ottawa and Quebec will see no increase, because the prices they pay
already cover Bell's costs of providing local service.
 
This rate rebalancing proposal begins the process of moving long
distance prices down and local prices up.  It follows the CRTC's
landmark regulatory framework decision (Decision 94-19) of September
16, 1994.  In its decision, the CRTC said basic local rates should be
increased so that long distance prices could be made more affordable
for Canadians.  It therefore ordered Bell and the other telephone
companies to reduce long distance prices.
 
Rate rebalancing is good news for the 97 per cent of Bell customers
who place long distance calls.  Even with the $2 monthly increase, the
first general local rate increase in nearly 12 years, Bell customers
will still pay among the lowest prices for basic service anywhere in
the world.
 
Today, more than 99 per cent of households in Ontario and Quebec have
basic telephone service.
 
In its decision, the CRTC reasoned that with basic telephone service
now universally-available, long distance prices need to become more
affordable.  As Canadian families and friends spread across the
country, they need to keep in touch, and long distance is no longer
the luxury it was once thought to be.
 
Long distance prices will be reduced as follows:
 
Calls made to locations within Ontario and Quebec:

Calls made to locations within Ontario and Quebec that are more than
65 kilometres (40 miles) away will be reduced by up to 13 per cent.
 
Calls to the Rest of Canada and the U.S.:

Calls made to locations outside Ontario and Quebec that are more than
90 km (56 miles) away will also be reduced by up to 13 per cent.
 
Calls made to locations in the U.S. that are more than 176 km (110
miles) will be reduced by up to 11 per cent.
 
Bell is also introducing a new Saturday discount of 35 per cent on
calls to locations outside Ontario and Quebec, and to the U.S.
 
As a result, all calls placed between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.  every
Saturday and Sunday will be discounted by 35 per cent.
 
The new reduced long distance prices will apply to our existing
time-of-day discounts and to other Bell savings plans such as Real
Plus(TM), so the price of long distance calling will be even lower.
 
The new reductions will make calling during our discount periods even
more attractive.
 
Sample Price Savings:
 
Weekday Calls
 
10-Minute Call         Discount Period  Current  Price   New  Price
 
Kingston-Ottawa              none          $3.70            $3.20
8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Oshawa-Detroit               none          $4.90            $4.50
8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Oakville-Ottawa              none          $3.80            $3.40
8 a.m.- 6 p.m..
Toronto-Vancouver             35%          $3.12            $2.80
6 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Sherbrooke-Miami              35%          $3.58            $3.19
6 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Laval-Fredericton             60%          $1.76            $1.56
11 p.m. - 8 a.m.
Hamilton-New York             60%          $2.12            $1.88
11 p.m. - 8 a.m.
 
Weekend Calls:
 
10-Minute Call         Discount Period  Current Price     New Price
 
Toronto-Halifax               35%          $2.99            $2.67
6 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Sherbrooke-Miami       new, Sat. at 35%    $5.50            $3.19
8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Hamilton-New York      new, Sat. at 35%    $5.30            $3.06
8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
St. Jovite-Winnipeg    new, Sat. at 35%    $4.60            $2.67
8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
London-Toronto                60%          $1.48            $1.32
11 p.m. - 8 a.m.
Chicoutimi-Quebec             60%          $1.48            $1.32
11 p.m. - 8 a.m.
 
Bell Canada, the largest Canadian telecommunications operating
company, markets a full range of state-of-the-art products and
services to more than seven million business and residence customers
in Ontario and Quebec.
 
Bell Canada is a member of Stentor -- an alliance of Canada's major
telecommunications companies.
 
 
For more information, please call:
 
Linda Gervais                        Susanna Cluff-Clyburne
Bell Canada Public Affairs           Bell Canada Public Affairs
(613) 781-3724                       (613) 785-0579
(613) 825-4460                       (613) 445-3984
 
Sandra Cruickshanks
Bell Ontario Public Affairs
(416) 581-4205
(416) 537-7182
 
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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 01:20:01 EST
From: David Leibold <aa070@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: PacBell Not Aiming to "Please"


An article by Richard Heft for {The Toronto Star} (19 Nov 94) entitled
"Pulling the plug on telephone politeness" refers to Pacific Bell's
decision to have their directory assistance operators remove the word
"please" from their greeting. That is, the operator would answer
something like "Hi, I'm xxxx, what city?" (where the xxxx is a name,
which is likely a pseudonym).  The old greeting went something like
"This is operator ###, what city, please?".

Seems some critics, including Judith "Miss Manners" Martin, don't like
PacBell's triumph of efficiency over politeness. PacBell, meanwhile,
claims the new please-less greeting saves $5M/year and 0.5 seconds per
call, to keep the entire greeting within a 1.2 second limit. Yet, the
current average call times are slightly longer (19.6 sec, versus the
previous 19.35 sec).

The article writer mentioned one unidentified operator who mentioned
that PacBell doesn't want anyone talking about the matter. 
Unfortunately, 
the context of the article didn't indicate whether the operator was
being interviewed while on a directory assistance call, or while off
work. This situation is on top of reported performance quota 
requirements.


David Leibold aa070@freenet.toronto.on.ca


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Actually, overall the operators are 
saying
a lot more in greeting than they used to say many years ago. Long, 
long
ago, the 'greeting' was simply "number please?" when they first 
answered
you, and "operator" if you flashed for them to return to the line at 
some
point in the call. And then, the word 'operator' frequently came out 
in
a smashed-together blur as 'opter' with the two middle syllables 
missing.
It has only been in the past ten or fifteen years that a more detailed
greeting including name -- albeit phone name, rarely real name -- 
and/or
operator number was included. Strange in a way, effeciency has been
replaced by courteous greeting. The old time operators were super fast 
and
effecient; you never had to ask them twice or repeat anything. They 
were
like human switches or robots.  PAT]

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From: jeinstos@netcom.com (John Einstoss)
Subject: Who is SRX in Plano Texas?
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 
guest)
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1994 03:45:39 GMT


I haven't been around PBX's for about five years.  Who is SRX (Shared
Resources Exchange) out of Plano Texas?  Their product is SRX Vision.
It is distributed locally here in the Bay Area by VoicePro.  Can
anyone inform me?  I am researching this for a potential buyer (60
lines and growing).  


Thanks.

jeinstos@netcom.com

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From: dannyb@panix.com (danny burstein)
Subject: Articles on 800 Pay Services and Cordless Phones
Date: 6 Dec 1994 10:33:14 -0500


The December 1994 issue of {Consumer Reports} has some articles of
special interest to the telecom crowd.

First is a piece on how 800 phone calls may generate a charge.
(Everyone in this group knows the deal, but it's interesting to see
how a mainstream consumer group reports it).

Second is a survey/test of cordless phones. In short, Consumer Reports
found that 10 channel 49 mhz units were better than 1 channel ones,
and that (most) 900 mhz units had -much- better range than those on 49
mhz.  They also gave a reasonable explanation of scrambling and other
security methods (although, surprisingly, they didn't hve the Motorola
phone).

They also, for good measure, report on the different types of consumer
batteries available and come to the unsurprising conclusion that just
about all alkalines are alike and you should buy based on price. (They
also compare ni-cads, the new Rayovac Renewals, lithium cells, and
even analyze the "Buddy-L" recharger.)


danny    dannyb@panix.com (or dburstein@mcimail.com)

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