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To: JMD who wrote (11053)	6/2/1998 4:33:00 PM
From: bananawind	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Calling party pays - somewhat on topic. Does anyone know if LU will be offering this feature in its cdmaOne networks? AG Communication Systems and Lucent Technologies Will Jointly Market an Intelligent Network Platform-Based Calling Party Pays Solution Service Gives Wireless Carriers Control Over Cost of Service, Billing Process MURRAY HILL, N.J., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- AG Communication Systems and Lucent Technologies today announced that AG Communication Systems' Intelligent Network & Wireless business unit will integrate its network-based INgage Calling Party Pays (CPP) solution into Lucent's intelligent network platform. The CPP solution will be integrated into the wide range of services already available on Lucent's Wireless Intelligent Network (WIN) platform. Currently, receivers of a wireless call have to pay for a call whether they want to or not. Service providers using AG Communication Systems' CPP solution and Lucent's WIN platform can now have the calling party pay for the call instead of the person receiving the call. The combined solution will allow Lucent and AG Communication Systems to develop, customize and deliver network-grade revenue-generating business and residential applications for wireline and wireless service. ''A capable Calling Party Pays system effectively increases wireless network traffic, but wireless carriers historically have been unwilling to invest much in it because of the cost of offering it through local exchange carriers and the lack of control over customer support and billing,'' said Carl Glaeser, AG Communication Systems' vice president and general manager for the IN & Wireless products group. ''INgage Calling Party Pays addresses these issues with a cost-effective network-based solution that is easy to install and administer.'' Currently, Lucent's WIN portfolio includes services like stand-alone home location register, over-the-air activation, short message service, wireless prepaid, voice activated dialing, wireless number portability and flexible alerting. Other Lucent intelligent network applications include complete wireline and Internet services. The addition of AG Communication Systems' Calling Party Pays solution to Lucent's WIN platform strengthens the end-to-end solution that both companies can offer a customer. ''Our partnership with AG Communication Systems demonstrates Lucent's continuing commitment to deliver end-to-end intelligent network applications for wireless networks and our commitment to open interfaces that allow third-party partners, such as AG Communication Systems, to develop applications on our platform,'' said Curtis Holmes, intelligent network vice president for Lucent's Communications Software Group. ''Our combined solution provides a single, open platform that can run a wide range of wireless, wireline and Internet services. This further strengthens our leadership role and continuing commitment to serve the needs of the service providers in the global marketplace.'' INgage Calling Party Pays takes care of all administration, from advising callers of airtime charges to tracking elapsed call-time and generating a billing record. The application operates on an SCP utilizing SS7 signaling for centralized operation and consistent coverage throughout geographically- dispersed networks. The initial application package uses a triggerless implementation via ISUP messaging and requires no specialized software on the mobile switches. The service provides the call control and monitoring at the home or gateway switch before the call completes to the CPP subscriber. INgage Calling Party Pays is one of several value-added network solutions AG Communication Systems offers through its INgage product line. Other products include complete wireline and wireless portability services, authorization call routing equipment, network-based wireless prepaid services, enhanced toll-free services and wireless 800 services. With more than a century of customer service, AG Communication Systems (http://www.agcs.com) is a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced telecommunications products and services, including access, wireless and intelligent network products. AG Communication Systems' GTD-5(R) EAX digital switching systems service more than 17 million customers worldwide in business, industry and government, as well as subscribers serviced by the public telephone network. Annual revenues for the fiscal year ending September 1997 were $400 million. Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit the company's web site at lucent.com.

To: JMD who wrote (11053)	6/2/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Hang on! Who was writing right here in this thread that Microsoft was going to be in trouble from Qualcomm and Janet Reno would be obliging Qualcomm to include Microsoft stuff on Anita-TM? To save you thinking, yes, me! Maybe you jokers think I'm kidding with the things I say. Or maybe NIH. Or what would a sheep farmer know anyway? Gilder is obviously now into plagiarism! "Speakers at a telecommunications conference here Wednesday said the monopolies of Microsoft and the Baby Bells are being destroyed by the rise of wireless data and other new technologies; they said San Diego can only benefit. In effusive remarks about San Diego's largest private employer, Qualcomm Inc., George Gilder, a prominent technology observer and social critic, depicted a new century dominated by wireless technology from Qualcomm Inc. of San Diego." Okay, so I'm into breaching copyright! But he didn't send a cheque. Microsoft never had a monopoly. Anyway, as George himself says, all business is seeking transient monopolies and the longer and stronger the monopoly the better the profit. Without a monopoly, you get 5% on your money. Anything over that represents monopoly profits. Pretty simple really. Gregg, take the bull by the horns and with the capital Capital Management has, buy Qualcomm Inc at $50! Forget the nonsense about portfolios, spreading risk and all that stuff. When you walk, you do it on two legs. No spares, redundancy etc. It takes a bit to learn how, during which time you keep a low centre of gravity, hands ready to catch the fall, malleable bones etc, but once you know how, it's time to line up on the track and RACE! You have obviously figured out a lot, understand a lot and can predict a lot of what Qualcomm will do. If Qualcomm represents the biggest gap between internal reality and external perception you've seen, then be the arbitrage man and take the profits you deserve. Don't just persuade others to take the benefit of your thousands of hours of effort. Take as much of the reward as you can wrap yourself around. Sell Yahoo! Microsoft, IBM, Lucent, Nokia, Ericsson, GEC, General Motors, Coca Cola, and pile it into Qualcomm. Quietly. Spread risk is for people who don't know what they are doing. Your clientele are obviously mostly intelligent people who got their money the hard way. They know it isn't done with a quick ramp up and down a Netscape, Yahoo! or Iomegan, hysteresis loop. Hysteresis loops absorb a lot of energy. You want straightforward exponential curves to infinity. Thanks for the SheepTracs suggestion Caxton AND Harvey! But you are not joking. Australian and Kiwi and no doubt USA and Argentinian ranchers spend expensive helicopter time hunting down stock in ravines and all over the place. Whales could be tracked with Globalstar. Even people! Pierre lives in San Diego! Pierre, you could get an implant by the folks at Qualcomm and then be tracked wherever you are. Imagine - you would never be lost. The CIA would be able to look after your interests completely. No more terrorism as they could watch silly McVeigh running for it. Heck, the computers could follow a visit to a fertilizer shop, then a truck rental place, then a diesel place, link the personal profile, do a few algorithms and dispatch a pilotless GPS guided nanoplane to sort the problem out. As Jim said, as the costs come down, the applications multiply. cdmaOne is going to be very big. Very, very big! What about the Sprint announcement. New paradigms! Wow, coming thick and fast. Capstone reported today to be going well with oil field trials for their little turbine motor/generators. Watch THAT space. Closely. Mqurice [over the limit again, oh dear]