The Teleputing Hotline

The Teleputing Hotline The Worldwide Network Letter Volume 3 Number 99 -- December 18, 1990 215 Winter Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30317 FAX: 404-378-0794 Phone: 404-373-7634 MCI:409-8960 GEnie: nb.atl CompuServe: 76200,3025 SOVIET UPDATE CommStruct International of the U.S. signed a joint-venture to operate an analog cellular system in Byelorussia. Chairman James Lewis admitted a possible veto from the USSR central government is a risk. CommStruct builds cellular systems for others in the U.S., but has worked on its own overseas, as in Zaire. About 4,000 customers should be linked in Minsk by mid-year -- total capacity will be over 200,000. It ...

The Teleputing Hotline The Worldwide Network Letter Volume 3 Number 97 -- December 11, 1990 215 Winter Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30317 FAX: 404-378-0794 Phone: 404-373-7634 MCI:409-8960 GEnie: nb.atl CompuServe: 76200,3025 FAX STANDARD DISPUTE THREATENS GROWTH The fax business has grown exponentially in part because nearly every fax machine follows the same standard, called the Group III standard of the CCITT. But those days may be ending with a dispute before the CCITT over a new standard called Group IIIbis. Group IIIbis would let standard fax machines use compression techniques and digital lines to run at up to 64,000 bits/second. They ...

The Teleputing Hotline The Worldwide Network Letter Volume 3 Number 95 -- December 3, 1990 215 Winter Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30317 FAX: 404-378-0794 Phone: 404-373-7634 MCI:409-8960 GEnie: nb.atl CompuServe: 76200,3025 Editor: Dana Blankenhorn European Editor: Steve Gold Associate Publisher: Lamont Wood Correspondent: Masayuki Miyazawa Sales Manager: Hiro Nakamura EC GREEN PAPER ON SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS The European Commission laid the political foundation for a satellite-based array of trans-European networks and services. Regulations on satellites across Europe remain unchanged from the 1970s, despite the rapid expansion of the small s...

The Teleputing Hotline The Worldwide Network Letter Volume 3 Number 93 -- November 27, 1990 215 Winter Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30317 FAX: 404-378-0794 Phone: 404-373-7634 MCI:409-8960 GEnie: nb.atl CompuServe: 76200,3025 Editor: Dana Blankenhorn European Editor: Steve Gold Associate Publisher: Lamont Wood Correspondent: Masayuki Miyazawa Sales Manager: Hiro Nakamura BACK IN THE USSR: SATELLITE EXCHANGES, A SOVIET COMPUSERVE? Kirill Tchashchin writes for Newsbytes that the Russian Commodities and Stock Exchanges will launch their own satellite within 2 years. It will mostly handle data flows between the two Moscow exchanges and subsidiaries i...

The Teleputing Hotline The Worldwide Network Letter Volume 3 Number 87 -- November 6, 1990 215 Winter Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30317 FAX: 404-378-0794 Phone: 404-373-7634 MCI:409-8960 GEnie: nb.atl CompuServe: 76200,3025 Editor: Dana Blankenhorn European Editor: Steve Gold Associate Publisher: Lamont Wood Correspondent: Masayuki Miyazawa Sales Manager: Hiro Nakamura PRODIGY ELIMINATES ACCOUNTS OF E-MAIL PROTESTERS Prodigy killed accounts of 8 people who were protesting a rate hike for electronic mail, and squashed further complaints by banning future messages devoted to the issue. One of those cut off, Herb Rothman, is featured in a Prodigy p...

The Teleputing Hotline The Worldwide Network Letter Volume 3 Number 83 -- October 23, 1990 215 Winter Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30317 FAX: 404-378-0794 Phone: 404-373-7634 MCI:409-8960 GEnie: nb.atl CompuServe: 76200,3025 Editor: Dana Blankenhorn European Editor: Steve Gold Associate Publisher: Lamont Wood Correspondent: Masayuki Miyazawa Sales Manager: Hiro Nakamura AUSTRALIA: Privacy Concerns Rising Paul Zucker writes for Newsbytes on a report from a New South Wales privacy committee that it is being starved of funding while the government ignores the erosion of personal privacy. It cites the proliferation of computerized police records, cri...

The Teleputing Hotline The Worldwide Network Letter Volume 3 Number 81 -- October 16, 1990 215 Winter Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30317 FAX: 404-378-0794 Phone: 404-373-7634 MCI:409-8960 GEnie: nb.atl CompuServe: 76200,3025 Editor: Dana Blankenhorn European Editor: Steve Gold Associate Publisher: Lamont Wood Correspondent: Masayuki Miyazawa Sales Manager: Hiro Nakamura EUROPE PLANNING ANTI-TRUST LAWS FOR TELECOMS INDUSTRY The European Commission (EC) will rely on regulation like that in the UK to keep state telecoms monopolies from taking advantage of their position. In the U.S. the danger is called cross- subsidization. In the UK, Oftel prevent...