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From: impact <impact@comtch.iea.com>
Subject: X.25 Card and C Library For PC
Date: 15 Dec 1994 20:29:18 GMT
Organization: CompuTech


Hello all, I've been asked to find information about X.25 network
cards, and a C library that will work in a MS-DOS environment.  We are
currently using Western Digital X.25 cards, but are unable (I'm told)
to get tech support for the hardware.

I've seen two company web pages that sell the X.25 cards for UNIX
boxes, but have not run accross anything that is PC based.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.


Katherine Gooding    ITC Teleservices    Spokane, WA

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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 01:16:19 +0100
From: Dik.Winter@cwi.nl
Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries


Yves Blondeel <yves.blondeel@fundp.ac.be>:

> Article 2 of the Decision states that:

> The single European emergency call number shall be introduced by
> 31 December 1992 at the latest, except... (exceptions to be 
justified)

> Note: if exceptions are used, the new date must be no later than
> 31 December 1996.

The Dutch PTT will probably succeed meeting the second deadline.
Currently the emergency number is 0611; 112 can not yet be implemented
because there are many local numbers that start with 112.  In October
1995 most telephone numbers in the Netherlands will change; one of the
reason is the ability to implement 112.  However, for at least one
half year the old numbers will still be valid.  So the earliest
possible implementation of 112 is about April/May 1996.


dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj  amsterdam, nederland, 
+31205924098
home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn  amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl

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Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 12:53:13 GMT
From: Clive D.W. Feather <clive@sco.COM>


Quoth Kimmo Ketolainen:

>     Great Britain and N.Ireland 112

That should read:

      United Kingdom            112 and 999 (equivalent)


Clive D.W. Feather      Santa Cruz Operation    
clive@sco.com           Croxley Centre          
Phone: +44 1923 813541  Hatters Lane, Watford   
Fax:   +44 1923 813811  WD1 8YN, United Kingdom 

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From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - SunSoft ICNC 
Grenoble)
Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries
Date: 15 Dec 1994 08:52:21 GMT
Organization: SunConnect


In article <telecom14.437.5@eecs.nwu.edu>, Kimmo.Ketolainen@utu.fi
(Kimmo Ketolainen) writes:

> Do you have any other to add, Pat? Some of these have been extremely
> hard to find, because people in many countries have not known what 
to
> do in case of emergency ... and thus don't know the number at all.

112 has been officially adopted as a Europe-wide emergency number, but
I'm not sure how widespread its implementation is yet.

>     France   112

I think 112 now works, but most phones and phone books I've seen
still list 15 (Ambulance) 17 (Police) and 18 (Fire). France Telecom
have not sent out any notification of a change to its customers.

>     Great Britain and N.Ireland 112

As for France, 112 is the new number and will work in the UK, but for
50 years 999 has been the number, and I suspect that if you stop
people in the street and ask, 100% of answers will be '999'.


Steve McKinty   Sun Microsystems ICNC
38240 Meylan, France
email: smckinty@france.sun.com

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From: erling@wm.estec.esa.nl (Erling Kristiansen)
Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries
Date: 15 Dec 1994 08:06:30 GMT
Organization: ESA/Estec/WMS, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Reply-To: erling@wm.estec.esa.nl


The emergency number in The Netherlands is not (yet) 112.  The present
number is 0611. 112 is planned some time in the future, I haven't got
the date.  Introducing 112 is a major undertaking because, in most
places, a number starting with a "1" is a local subscriber number. 112
can only be introduced after restructuring the complete numbering
plan.

112, in fact, is the emergency number mandated by the European Union,
but many countries have not introduced it yet due to collisions with
the current numbering plan. So I suspect that some of the other
European countries in your list do not have 112 in operation yet.

As a side remark, I wonder how they came up with 112, which has a very
high rate of conflict with existing numbers. Most EU countries have
"0" as first digit to escape from local call to long distance or
special service.

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From: knop@duteca8.et.tudelft.nl (Peter Knoppers)
Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries
Date: 15 Dec 1994 17:18:33 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical 
Engineering


Kimmo.Ketolainen@utu.fi (Kimmo Ketolainen) writes:

>    Netherlands, The  112

WRONG! Currently the number is 0611, the number 112 will be introduced
at some time in the future.  Please fix the list. Errors like this can
be dangerous.


Peter Knopers - knop@duteca.et.tudelft.nl

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Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers In Various Countries
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 94 17:07:28 CET
From: Graham Sistemi Sas <MC7124@mclink.it>


In Italy the numbers are:

112     Police (Carabinieri)
115     Fire Dept
116*    Auto Repair (Automobile Club d'Italia, also known as A.C.I.)
118     Ambulance
113     All those services together (the most known and the most used)

*A.C.I is a private organisation and prices are different for
subscriber and other.

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From: janjoris@win.tue.nl (Jan Joris Vereijken)
Subject: Re: Emergency Numbers in Various Countries
Date: 15 Dec 1994 16:24:29 +0100
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Reply-To: janjoris@acm.org (Jan Joris Vereijken)


Kimmo Ketolainen <Kimmo.Ketolainen@utu.fi> wrote:

>    Netherlands, The  112

*WRONG*

The Netherlands uses 0611 as the universal emergency number.

We will change to 112 in a few years, though...

Hope This Helps(tm),


Jan Joris Vereijken, Eindhoven University of Technology, The 
Netherlands.
Tel: +31 40 474628 / 840754   Email: janjoris@acm.org

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From: marks@pacifier.com (Mark Silbernagel)
Subject: Re: Cellular Roaming in NYC Suspended
Date: 15 Dec 1994 10:55:57 -0800


In article <telecom14.443.7@eecs.nwu.edu>, <Pat_Barron@transarc.com>
wrote:

> Well, Cellular One in Pittsburgh (PA) tried something like this 
once,
> with international calls.  They sent around a letter to all
> subscribers to tell them that due to an increase in fraud, they 
would
> no longer be able to dial international calls from their cellular
> phones.  So, I made a polite phone call to their customer service
> number saying that I'd contracted for a service to be able to call
> anywhere I wanted to, and that I wanted my international calling
> restored.  Immediately.  Guess what?  They did it.  Just for my 
phone,
> not in general.  Has anyone tried this with Cellular One Baltimore 
and
> their NYC roaming policy?

The same thing was done here in the Portland Oregon area a few years
ago.  Without announcement, all international calling was shut off. If
you needed it, you called customer support and had it turned back on.
Not that big of a deal, except that I recall thinking that it was no
way to treat a paying customer.

So, the default these days is probably *off* until you request
otherwise.

Guess I'll have to try it on my new digital... ;')


Mark
pacifier.com - Vancouver's Public access Internet (206) 693-0325
telnet or dial the above and type "new" at the prompt to register

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From: djcl@io.org (woody)
Subject: Re: Freakers and Fraudulent Billing on "Chat" Lines
Date: 15 Dec 1994 07:28:15 -0500
Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151  Voice: 416-
363-8676


In article <telecom14.433.1@eecs.nwu.edu>, Douglas W. Martin 
<martin@cod.
nosc.mil> wrote:

> The latest scheme I've heard discussed claims to use third-party
> billing to a defunct exchange.  For example, one group of callers 
were
> apparently billing calls to (416)465-xxxx where the 465 exchange 
used
> to be part of metro Toronto and is now only dialable with 905.

There are exchanges that went from 416 to 905, but 465 was not one of
them. 416-465 has long been in the east end of Toronto proper.

> My questions: can calls be thiird-party billed to numbers where
> permissive dialing has expired?  Can a freaker with the right

In Bell Canada land, billing to third number requires an operator
verification of the number to be billed (ie. an acceptance from the
third party). If the permissive period expires, the third party should
likely be undialable.

> The freaker I talked to also mentioned "diverters", which he
> defined to me as numbers that would give a new dial tone such that 
the
> subsequent call couldn't be traced.  Can it all be that simple if 
you
> want to defraud a person or phone company?

If a diverter gets enough abuse, one might suppose the chain of calls
through diverters could be traced; that is, trace a-->b, b-->c and
connect the dots ...

And on a side note, calls to 900 or "976" (in-area charge numbers) 
cannot be charged to calling cards or called from payphones.


djcl@io.org

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Subject: Re: Buffalo NY Crack Down on Pay Phones
From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
Date: 15 Dec 94 12:51:00 GMT
Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York NY - 212-274-8110
Reply-To: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)


> Although I hate to interject here, this choice in limiting payphones
> around housing projects in some ways dovetails recent post office
> decisions to stop mail delivery altogether to residents in certain
> 'high risk' housing projects.  While much talk has been made of
> 'fair/equal access' to be provided with newer telecommunication
> services in the future, my skepticsm grows when I see basic and
> existing services removed.

In New York City I suspect that NYC Housing Authority project drug
dealers would get cloned cellular phones and not bother with
payphones.

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