Re: tlug: Linux telecom nexus

["Jonathan Byrne" <jpmag@example.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: J. David Beutel <jdb@example.com>

>I suppose there isn't even a service from NTT, like
MCI-One?
>What if my TA can try to forward the call to my PHS, and
then
>revert to a local port if I don't answer?  Call forwarding
should
>be a common feature (if not the all-important reverting
part).
>The NEC Aterm IT50 DSU is my front-runner now, with just an
hour to go.

NTT does have call forwarding, but it can't revert to a
local port on your computer if no one answers.  Call
forwarding is dumb; it just intercepts your call on the way
and re-routes it somewhere else instead of sending it to
your phone number.  If no one answers at somewhere else, the
call forwarding system can't do anything about that.  Unless
maybe somewhere else is also using call forwarding and the
call winds up going to somebody who doesn't even know you
:-)

The NEC IT50 is a good and reasonably priced TA that I think
you will be happy with.

>The PHS/PDAs talk about Pmail or Imail or Amail ad nausium.
Why do they

P-mail (or Pee Mail, as I like to think of it :-)  ) is
basically a way to make  your PHS function as an
alphanumeric pager, rather than e-mail per se.  They aren't
doing it to compete with e-mail, they're doing it to compete
with big beeper companies like Tokyo Telemessage.

>all try to make up their own methods, when email on
Internet works great?
>And which are reasonable adaptations (e.g., UUI mail using
the D channel?)
>versus a hopeless branding and commercialization?



>> DDI sends a notification right to your PHS when you're
back in range,
>> telling you you have voice mail.
>
>That's good.  I would hope that the others have something
like it too.
>I'll have to ask them.

When I used Astel, they didn't.  You had to either have
their paging service or call in and check, one of the
reasons I went with DDI when I got a new PHS.  I'm not sure
if Astel has changed that or not, though.  It's been about a
year since I got my DDI.

Jonathan

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