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NorthWestern Syndicate
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Presents:
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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Issue No. 3
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Written by The Sensei
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NOTE: The Syndicate Report is stictly Bell information, and without some
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background, could cause a problem to understand completely.
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LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (CONTINUED INFO.):
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The Future -- Industry experts predict that the number of Local Area
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Networks will increase from 80,000 in 1986 to over 205,000 by the end of
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this decade. More than 2,000,000 devices will be connected by these LANs.
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If today's trend continues, computer networks will comprise the majority of
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LAN usage.
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The Local Area Networks arena is one of the most volatile in today's
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telecommunications industry. The major issues yet unresolved - transmission
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standards and interconnection, and the continued jockeying among players for
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dominance almost guarntees that LAN's wil be a topic of interest for the
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foreseeable future.
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BUSINESS/RESIDENCE ACCOUNT TRACKING:
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Prior to Divesture, an AT&T system provided the operating companies
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with a customer-specific analysis tool. MARC, the Market Analysis of Revenue
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and Customers system, offered information on residential customer including
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local and long distance usage, telephone equipment and demographic character-
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istics.
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MARC was dicontinued at Devesture. The three US West IDCs are planning
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to replace MARC with a system that will provide users with information on
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customers' demographics (age, income, household size, etc.), psychographics
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(lifestyle and attitudes) and telecommunicatons usage. The system could be of
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use to product managers, forecasters and anyone with a need for customer--
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specific information.
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The Business Residence Account Tracking system (BRAT) will consist of
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historical information developed by combining usage-sensitive data from CRIS,
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central office data (Customer, Touchtone, etc.) and questionnaire data from a
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sample of Bell customers.
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INTRACALL:
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IntraCall is a new product from Bell offering customers a home
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intercom system. IntraCal is easy to use and customers will not have to
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add any equipment to put the product in use.
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A customer uses IntraCall by listening for a dial tone then dialing
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their own telephone number. When a busy signal is received the customer hangs
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up the telephone. All telephones on that line will ring back with a
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distinctive ring (two short rings). When at least two telephones are answered
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an intercom path is established. IntraCall is deactivated when all telephones
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have been hung up.
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IntraCall is currently available in specially equipped cental offices
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in the 5 NorthWestern Bell states. This feature will be more available in
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the near future. Most states Bell is charging 2.00 per month. The local
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business office will have information on availability of IntraCall by
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location.
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There are some features interactions to be aware of when using IntraCall:
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1) It will to work while using Three-Way Calling.
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2) It disables Call Waiting (the calling party will
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hear a busy signal.)
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3) It will not work if Call Forwaring is activated.
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4) It will not work with lines in a hunt group.
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5) LMS charges do not apply to IntraCall.
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IntraCall advantages. Let's say you want to call a fellow hacker.
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IntraCall's special distinctive ring signals other hackers to pick up the phone
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nearest them. You can talk a phreak upstairs, a hacker downstairs, or a
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cracker in the garage, all at once if you like. Anywhere you have an extension
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phone, you have an intercom.
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POTS AND PANS DEVELOPMENTS:
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POTS is a telecommunications industry acronym meaning "Plain Old Tele-
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phone Service." It is now accompanied, N.W.Syndicate has learned recently,
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by PANS, which is "Pretty Advanced New Stuff."...Bell Laboratories patented a
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device that will enable a telephone customer to trace a nuisance call. To
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trace a call, a customer would dial a special code number that causes both the
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called and calling numbers to be transmitted to a local central office or
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police station.
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QUESTIONS:
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If you come up with any questions on the articles in The Synicate
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Report, please contact me anyway possible. I will be happy to clear up and
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eliminate unwanted confusion.
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This concludes this Issue No. 3 presented by:
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The Syndicate Report
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Copyright (C) July 30 1986 by The Sensei
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Other System Operators may use this file as long as nothing is altered
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