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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Three, Issue 30, File #11 of 12
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PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN
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PWN PWN
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PWN P h r a c k W o r l d N e w s PWN
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PWN ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ PWN
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PWN Issue XXX/Part 1 PWN
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PWN Created, Written, and Edited PWN
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PWN by Knight Lightning PWN
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PWN PWN
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PWN Special Thanks to Dark OverLord PWN
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Happy Holidays and Welcome to Issue XXX of Phrack World News!
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This issue of Phrack World News contains stories and articles detailing events
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and other information concerning Acid Phreak, AT&T, Apple Computer Co.,
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Bellcore, Bernie S., Klaus Brunnstein, Cap'n Crunch, Captain Crook, Chaos
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Communications Congress, Cheshire Catalyst, Clifford Stoll, CompuServe, Leonard
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Mitchell DiCicco, Emmanuel Goldstein, FCC, Katie Hafner, Harpers Magazine,
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Intellical, Michael Synergy, Kevin David Mitnick, Phiber Optik, Phonavision,
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Phrozen Ghost, Prime Suspect, Sir Francis Drake, Susan Thunder, Telenet, Terra,
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Tuc, Tymnet, The Well, and...
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Announcing the Fourth Annual...
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SummerCon '90
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June 22-24, 1990
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Saint Louis, Missouri
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This year's convention looks to be the more incredible than ever. Many of you
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will be hearing from us directly over the next few months about what will be
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taking place and where SummerCon '90 will be held specifically. The posted
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date is of course a tentative one (as we are still six months away), but any
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and all changes or new information will be in PWN and passed to our network
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friends.
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If you are thinking about attending SummerCon '90, please find a way to contact
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us as soon as possible. If you are not on the Internet or one of the public
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access Unix systems across the country, then post a message on bulletin boards
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that asks who is in contact with us. Chances are that there will be someone on
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there that can reach us.
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Knight Lightning / Forest Ranger / Taran King
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"A New Decade Is Upon Us... And The Future Never Looked Brighter!"
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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Mitnick's Partner Gets Community Service November 29, 1989
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By Kathy McDonald (New York Times)
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"Man Sentenced To Community Service For Helping Steal Computer Program"
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LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge has sentenced a 24-year-old suburban Calabasas
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man to community service at a homeless shelter for his role in helping computer
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hacker Kevin Mitnick steal a computer security program.
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In rejecting a sentencing report that suggested a prison term, U.S. District
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Judge Mariana Pfaelzer noted that Leonard Mitchell DiCicco had voluntarily
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notified authorities of the computer hacking.
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"I think you can do some good" in the community by using his computer skills
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productively, Pfaelzer told DiCicco.
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She sentenced DiCicco to five years of probation, during which he must complete
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750 hours of community service through the Foundation for People, a Los Angeles
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group that matches probationers with community service projects.
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DiCicco was assigned to develop a computer system for the Anaheim Interfaith
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Shelter, said Frances Dohn, a foundation official.
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DiCicco also was ordered to pay $12,000 in restitution to Digital Equipment
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Corporation of Massachusetts, from which Mitnick stole a computer security
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program.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney James Asperger agreed with the community service
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sentence, saying DiCicco's cooperation had been crucial in the case against
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Mitnick.
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DiCicco reported Mitnick to DEC officers. Mitnick later admitted he stole the
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program and electronically brought it to California.
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DiCicco pleaded guilty in July to one count of aiding and abetting the
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interstate transportation of stolen property. He admitted that in 1987 he let
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Mitnick, age 25, of suburban Panorama City, use his office computer at
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Voluntary Plan Administrators in Calabasas to break into the DEC system.
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Mitnick pleaded guilty and was sentenced in July to one year in prison and six
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months in a community treatment program aimed at breaking his "addiction" to
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computer hacking.
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Under a plea bargain agreement with the government, DiCicco pleaded guilty in
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July in exchange for a promise that he would not be prosecuted for any of the
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other instances of computer hacking he and Mitnick carried out.
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If you are looking for other articles related to Leonard Mitchell DiCicco and
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the famous Kevin David Mitnick please refer to;
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"Pacific Bell Means Business" (10/06/88) PWN XXI....Part 1
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"Dangerous Hacker Is Captured" (No Date ) PWN XXII...Part 1
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"Ex-Computer Whiz Kid Held On New Fraud Counts" (12/16/88) PWN XXII...Part 1
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"Dangerous Keyboard Artist" (12/20/88) PWN XXII...Part 1
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"Armed With A Keyboard And Considered Dangerous" (12/28/88) PWN XXIII..Part 1
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"Dark Side Hacker Seen As Electronic Terrorist" (01/08/89) PWN XXIII..Part 1
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"Mitnick Plea Bargains" (03/16/89) PWN XXV....Part 1
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"Mitnick Plea Bargain Rejected As Too Lenient" (04/25/89) PWN XXVII..Part 1
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"Computer Hacker Working On Another Plea Bargain" (05/06/89) PWN XXVII..Part 1
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"Mitnick Update" (05/10/89) PWN XXVII..Part 1
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"Kenneth Siani Speaks Out About Kevin Mitnick" (05/23/89) PWN XXVII..Part 1
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"Judge Suggests Computer Hacker Undergo Counseling"(07/17/89) PWN XXVIII.Part 1
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"Authorities Backed Away From Original Allegations"(07/23/89) PWN XXVIII.Part 1
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"Judge Proposes Comm. Service For Hacker's Accomp."(10/13/89) PWN XXX....Part 1
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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Chaos Communications Congress
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by Terra of the Chaos Computer Club
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On December 27-29, 1989 is the Chaos Communication Congress at Eidelstaedter
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Buergerhaus, Hamburg, West Germany.
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The topics of this Congress include:
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- The new German PTT law
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- Discussion about Copyright and Freedom of Information act
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- Women and Computers
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- Mailbox and other Networks (Zerberus, InterEuNet, UUCP)
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- Workshops for East and West German people to build networks between the two
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countries.
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- Discussion between Professor Klaus Brunnstein and CCC members about the
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problems of viruses and worms.
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- Workshops about Unix and UUCP for beginners, advanced, and special people
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- Presswork in a special room
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- Workshop Cyberbrain or Cyberpunk
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- Workshop and Discussion about Secure Networks (Special: TeleTrust, coding
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mixed gateways)
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The prices to enter the Congress are
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33 DM for Normal people
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23 DM for CCC-members
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53 DM for Press
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Regards,
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Terra
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Phonavision At The University of California October 15, 1989
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Taken From the New York Times
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CALIFORNIA -- Students at two campuses of the University of California, at
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Berkeley and Los Angeles, have become the test market for a new public
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video-telephone booth called Phonavision.
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Its developers claim that it is the world's first video telephone for the
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general public.
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Each of the campuses has one of the large, silver-color phone booths in its
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student union. Phonavision opened on October 9, for a week of free
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demonstrations. Starting October 16, video phone calls from one campus to the
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other will cost $10 for three minutes.
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"We view all this semester as a test," said Stephen Strickland, chief executive
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officer of the Los Angeles-based company, Communications Technologies, that
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developed the video phones. "We want to be sure that when we do go to market
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with this service, it's as good as it can be."
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"We feel we're probably six months to a year away from having a system that we
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can go out and market," Strickland said. "I see them in airport lobbies, hotel
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lobbies, shopping centers, indoor high-traffic locations." Video telephones
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are already widely used in business, he added.
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Phonavision callers speak to each other on standard telephone receivers.
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A snapshot-size image of their own face is projected on one half of a small
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screen, and the other half shows a picture of the person to whom they are
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talking.
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As a caller talks, the video screen shows small movements of the mouth or face.
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But sudden movements mean a distorted picture.
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With a tilt of a caller's head, for example, the image will move to the side in
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separate parts, starting with the top of the head and moving down in a wavelike
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motion.
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Annalee Andres, a sophomore from Santa Ana, California, who has not yet
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selected a major, was one of the first students to try out Berkeley's new video
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phone. She and her friends crowded around the phone booth in the Martin Luther
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King Jr. Student Center, taking turns talking to a student from UCLA.
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"I think it has a long way to go yet, but it's really cool," she said. "I can
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really see where it's leading."
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Ms. Andres speculated on the effects that widespread use of video phones would
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have. "What if they catch you and you're just out of the shower?" she asked.
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"It'll change dating."
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Daniel Ciruli, a junior from Tucson, Arizona, majoring in computer science, was
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enthusiastic about his trial session, but he said the fee would keep him away
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in the future.
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"It's a new toy," he said. "But at $10 for three minutes, with only one other
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Phonavision, it's not going to be something that students are beating down the
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door to use."
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The video phone booth offers other services: Recording and dealing in
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videotapes and a place to send and receive fax messages. The booth accepts $1,
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$5, $10 and $20 bills, as well as Mastercard and Visa.
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Gary Li, a senior from Beijing, who is majoring in electrical engineering,
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started setting up Berkeley's phone booth in April. Since then he has spent
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about 20 hours a week repairing kinks in the system.
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Berkeley and UCLA were chosen as tryout spots for the new service because most
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students know somebody at the other campus, said Strickland, the company's
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chief executive.
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"That's a place where we can get novelty use," he said, adding that "Berkeley
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and UCLA have a reputation for being front-runner schools -- places that are
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innovative, that like new technology."
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Strickland said his company has spent almost three years developing
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Phonavision. He would not disclose total costs, but priced the video phone
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booths at $50,000 each.
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The Omnipresent Telephone October 10, 1989
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Taken from The New York Times
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Whatever the psychological implications, new technology has clearly made the
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phone more omnipresent. More calls are generated because of answering
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machines, now owned by 28 percent of the nation's households, according to the
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Electronic Industries Association. People who use them say they make and
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receive more calls because of them.
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"In olden days you would just miss the call," said Michael Beglin, a
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businessman in Nashville.
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Jill Goodman, an art dealer in New York, says she talks on the phone so often
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that "I'm tortured about it, teased and insulted." She uses the phone to
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socialize, shop and check in with people she wants to stay in touch with but
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does not want to take the time to see.
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"I have two lines in the country, two lines at home in the city and three lines
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in my office, if that gives you any idea of how much phone I can generate," she
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said.
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A month ago, after resisting initially, she decided to have a car phone
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installed. "I thought it might be nice to have a couple of hours without being
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reachable," she said. "But I didn't like not being able to reach when I wanted
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to."
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Increasingly, too, people are using the phone to get services, information and
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products.
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The 900 numbers, which require callers to pay the cost, and the 800 numbers,
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paid for by the calls' recipients, are growing quickly.
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Sprint Gateways started a new 900 service in May that already has 250 lines.
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Callers can get wrestling trivia, financial updates, real-estate information
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and a host of other data. They can even play a version of "Family Feud," which
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receives as many as 7,000 calls a day, said Adrian Toader, the director of
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sales and marketing.
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Telephone shopping through 800 numbers continues to grow, too. In 1986, L.L.
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Bean, the Freeport, Maine, retailer, received 60 percent of its orders by
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telephone and 40 percent by mail; by 1988, telephone orders had risen to 70
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percent. Like an increasing number of retailers, L.L. Bean allows customers to
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call in their orders 24 hours a day.
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But callers to 800 numbers often want more than a new shirt or sweater.
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Susan Dilworth, who takes telephone orders for L.L. Bean, said, "A lot of
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people call and say: 'I'm coming to New England for the first time. How
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should I dress?'" Other callers order merchandise but then begin talking about
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their personal lives. "I think they're lonely," Mrs. Dilworth said.
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Indeed, these anonymous but personal contacts are so popular that some people
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are becoming hooked.
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Marilyn Ng-A-Qui, the acting executive director of the New York City Self-Help
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Clearinghouse, said one man called looking for help because he had run up a
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$5,000 bill calling 900 numbers. "It is emerging as a problem all over the
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country," she said.
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Despite the deluge of telephone conversation, there are holdouts. Lois Korey,
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a partner in a New York advertising agency, writes letters whenever she can,
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often suggesting lunch meetings. "I really like to see who I'm talking to,"
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she said.
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But even her partner, Allen Kay, calls her from his office just four feet away.
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The only time he could not telephone, Mrs. Korey said, was when he was in his
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car. And now those days are over. "He got a car phone a month ago, and he
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calls all the time," she said. "When I sit in the front seat of his car, I try
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to step on it."
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Higher Phone Rates For Modem Users November 26, 1989
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(Material gathered from an Apple digest on Usenet)
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A new regulation that the FCC is quietly working on will directly affect you as
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the user of a computer and modem. The FCC proposes that users of modems should
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pay extra charges for use of the public telephone network which carry their
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data.
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In addition, computer network services such as CompuServe, Tymnet, & Telenet
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would also be charged as much as $6.00 per hour per user for use of the public
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telephone network. These charges would very likely be passed on to the
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subscribers.
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The money is to be collected and given to the telephone company in an effort to
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raise funds lost to deregulation.
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Jim Eason of KGO newstalk radio (San Francisco, California) commented on the
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proposal during his afternoon radio program during which, he said he learned of
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the new legislation in an article in the New York Times. Jim took the time to
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gather the addresses which are given below.
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It is important that you act now. The bureaucrats already have it in there
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mind that modem users should subsidize the phone company and are now listening
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to public comment. Please stand up and make it clear that we will not stand
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for any government restriction on the free exchange of information.
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The people to write to about this situation are:
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Chairman of the FCC
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1919 M Street N.W.
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Washington, D.C. 20554
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Chairman, Senate Communication Subcommittee
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SH-227 Hart Building
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Washington, D.C. 20510
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Chairman, House Telecommunication Subcommittee
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B-331 Rayburn Building
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Washington, D.C. 20515
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Here is a sample letter:
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Dear Sir,
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Please allow me to express my displeasure with the FCC proposal which
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would authorize a surcharge for the use of modems on the telephone network.
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This regulation is nothing less than an attempt to restrict the free exchange
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of information among the growing number of computer users. Calls placed using
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modems require no special telephone company equipment, and users of modems pay
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the phone company for use of the network in the form of a monthly bill. In
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short, a modem call is the same as a voice call and therefore should not be
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subject to any additional regulation.
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FCC Orders Refunds to Long-Distance Companies November 30, 1989
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WASHINGTON -- Local telephone companies may have to refund as much as $75
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million to long-distance companies and large private-line business customers,
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the Federal Communications Commission says.
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Pacific Northwest Bell in Idaho is one of the 15 companies named. The local
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phone companies accumulated overcharges between 1985 and 1988 under FCC
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guidelines that allowed prices of these high capacity private-line services to
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exceed the phone companies' costs of providing the services.
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The FCC ordered a refund as it considered challenges to the special pricing
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scheme, which the local phone companies provide for long-distance companies or
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large business customers. The commission voted 4-0 that the scheme was legal
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during the 1985-88 period, when the high prices were designed to keep too many
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customers from switching from the regular public network to private lines, but
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that market conditions no longer justify continuation of the special pricing.
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The commission said it expects the local phone companies to refrain from
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requesting such special prices in the future.
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While examining the challenges to the special pricing scheme, the commission
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said it found that local phone companies in some cases had charged more than
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allowed under the commission's guidelines. Therefore, the companies must
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refund those charges, which could amount to as much as $75 million, the
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commission said. The FCC said the amount of the refunds will not be known
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until the local phone companies file detailed reports with the commission. The
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companies have 40 days to make their filings.
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The companies found not to be in compliance with the commission's pricing
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guidelines from October 1, 1985 to December 31, 1986 were:
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- Diamond State
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- South Central Bell in Alabama
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- Southwestern Bell in Missouri and Oklahoma
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- Northwestern Bell in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North Dakota
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- Pacific Northwest Bell in Idaho
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Pacific Northwest Bell is now called U.S. West Communications and is the phone
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company that serves most Seattle-area residents.
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Companies found not complying from January 1, 1987 to December 31, 1988 were:
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- Ohio Bell
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- Wisconsin Bell
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- Southern Bell in North Carolina and South Carolina
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- South Central Bell in Mississippi and Tennessee
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- Pacific Bell
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- Nevada Bell
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- Southwestern Bell
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- Mountain Bell
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- Northwestern Bell
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- Cincinnati Bell
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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AT&T v. Intellicall: Another Lawsuit November 8, 1989
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Dallas -- AT&T filed a lawsuit charging that a Texas-based corporation equips
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its pay telephones to illegally obtain billing information owned by AT&T.
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The lawsuit asks for $2 million in punitive damages and an undetermined amount
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in actual damages from Intellicall Inc., headquartered in Carrollton, Texas.
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It also asks the U.S. District Court in Dallas to order Intellicall to stop its
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unauthorized use of AT&T billing information.
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At issue is how Intellicall pay phones determine the validity of calling card
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numbers for billing purposes. AT&T contends that Intellicall pay phones are
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designed and programmed by Intellicall to reach into and obtain the information
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directly from AT&T's card validation system.
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That system, called Billing Validation Application (BVA), is a part of AT&T's
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network facilities. Before AT&T completes a call that will be charged to an
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AT&T Card, its validation system verifies that the number provided by the
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customer is currently valid.
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Based on contractual arrangements made before the 1984 breakup of the Bell
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System, regional Bell telephone companies also use the validation system. AT&T
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does not permit competitors such as Intellicall to use the system because the
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system was built by AT&T and contains valuable competitive information.
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AT&T alleges that when callers use an AT&T Card or Bell company calling card at
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an Intellicall pay phone, the pay phone automatically places a separate call
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through AT&T or local Bell facilities to a pre-programmed telephone number so
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that AT&T's validation system will automatically check the card number.
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If the card number is valid, the Intellicall pay phone then puts through the
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original customer call.
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"As a result of these practices," the lawsuit says, "Intellicall
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surreptitiously and without authorization obtains validation data from AT&T,
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obtains fraud control for calls by its customers without having to invest in
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fraud control facilities or otherwise purchase fraud control services, imposes
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costs on AT&T, and... obtains an unfair advantage over its competitors
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providing pay telephone and/or long-distance service, including AT&T."
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Although AT&T does not authorize other companies to accept the AT&T Card and
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does not permit competitors to use its validation system, the lawsuit notes
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that Intellicall could purchase validation services for Bell company calling
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cards from other companies.
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AT&T said it notified Intellicall that it was violating AT&T's proprietary
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rights and gave Intellicall every reasonable opportunity to halt the fraudulent
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validation practice. Only after Intellicall persisted in its unfair practices
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did AT&T decide to take legal action.
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AT&T v. Intellicall: The Lawsuit Is Over November 13, 1989
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Dallas -- AT&T and Intellicall, Inc. today announced the settlement of a
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lawsuit filed by AT&T against Intellicall, seeking damages and an injunction.
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AT&T had accused Intellicall of unauthorized access to AT&T's calling card
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validation system.
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The settlement also covered potential counterclaims which Intellicall intended
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to file against AT&T.
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In the agreement, Intellicall acknowledged AT&T's proprietary rights in the
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Billing Validation Application system, and agreed to make modifications in its
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licensed pay telephone software to safeguard against unauthorized access and
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use of the AT&T system.
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The terms of the agreement include an undisclosed payment by Intellicall to
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AT&T to contribute to the establishment of a compliance program which will
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permit AT&T to monitor unauthorized access to its billing systems.
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"AT&T is pleased that a settlement recognizing AT&T's proprietary right to the
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validation system was reached so quickly," said Gerald Hines, director of AT&T
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Card Services.
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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