Why You Still Can't Hear Me Now

On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:16:08 -0700, Jeff Jonas <[email protected]> wrote:

>> "Bell Labs Research China provides internship opportunities for
>> undergraduate, graduate students and Ph.D. candidates.
>>
>> On March 23, 2000, Bell Labs launched a new research facility in
>> Beijing, China - Bell Labs Research China (BLRC). It was the first time
>> in its history that Bell Labs established a research laboratory outside
>> the United States.
>
> I am an engineering master's student at NJIT: New Jersey Institute of
> Technology.
> Many of the professors are ex-Bell Labs, not by choice
> but due to downsizing, cancelled projects and disbanded groups.
> Most of my masters' classmates are from China, India and Pakistan.
> Most of the PhD students are Chinese.
>
> It's bad enough that U.S. citizens are competing just for seats in the
> class,
> but these foreign classmates are eligible for research jobs
> that I and the professors are not?

It works the other way too: there are a lot of projects/jobs they are not
eligible for in the US! (after all, there is a limit on work visas for
skilled labor, unlike the case for unskilled labor - but I digress.
Furthermore there are often issues of security clearances). In any case,
if they're admitted into your school on merit (which I bet they are),
you're better off for it as they help keep the school open (last I heard,
not enough US citizens apply to CS/EE schools. Thus if it wasn't for the
non-citizens, schools would either close for lack of funding or drop their
standards; either way, you loose).


-Dean
PS My apologies for posting to this group on a non Cingular issue

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MrPepper11 wrote:
> One out of three cellphone calls had quality problems last year.
>
>> In an attempt to eradicate the dropped calls and dead zones that plague
> cellphone users, wireless companies have spent small fortunes trying to
> improve their networks. As part of a telecom mergers boom, last fall,
> Cingular Wireless bought AT&T Wireless for $41 billion, in part to get
> access to additional network capacity.
>
> But billions of dollars in investments later and several mergers
> further -- and at a time when some 11 million customers have ditched
> their traditional phone service and become more reliant on cellphones
> -- the long-promised improvement still hasn't come. This is an enormous
> source of bafflement and irritation to consumers, whose patience has
> begun to run out as evidenced by a continuing high volume of
> complaints.
>
> Roughly one out of three cellphone calls had quality problems of some
> kind last year, according to an online survey by J.D. Power &
> Associates of 21,700 wireless customers. The result was essentially
> unchanged from the 2003 survey, the first year it was conducted.
> Besides dropped calls and an inability to connect, callers constantly
> experienced interference, echoes and voice distortion.
>
> Deadcellzones.com, which lets consumers post locations where their
> calls are routinely disconnected or fail to go through, lists scores of
> well-known places: from the intersection of Interstates 80 and 55 in
> Chicago to the campus of the University of San Diego.
>
> Wireless companies contend that if they spent the money required to fix
> all the problems, their customers would have to pay more for service.
> They also cite local opposition to building new cell towers, which are
> the primary means of connecting wireless calls.
>
> But there is still plenty the industry could do to improve service.
> Wireless carriers, for example, rarely let their customers roam onto
> another carrier's network in a large market where they already have
> their own infrastructure. This lack of cooperation inhibits better
> service.
>
> Also, the mergers haven't necessarily led to better connections. It has
> been seven months since Cingular Wireless acquired AT&T Wireless,
> becoming the nation's largest wireless company. Since then, Cingular
> has been trying to push former AT&T Wireless customers from an old
> network to a newer network. As part of that, it has been spending next
> to nothing to maintain the old network, leaving customers who don't
> upgrade in the lurch. Cingular Wireless had the highest rate of
> consumer complaints received by the Federal Communications Commission
> in the fourth quarter of 2004, its first quarter as a combined company.
>
> How reliable are cellphones these days? Don Fenstermacher needs two
> cellphones to stay connected. A lawyer based in Albuquerque, N.M., Mr.
> Fenstermacher has to travel to small towns in the sparsely populated
> state to file lawsuits. Because his T-Mobile BlackBerry phone doesn't
> work most of the time on the road, he keeps a Verizon Wireless phone as
> well. A T-Mobile spokesman says its network "is strongest where the
> large majority of Americans live, work and commute."
>
> But coverage problems affect customers of all the major cellphone
> providers and encompass many well-trafficked areas, according to
> deadcellzones.com.
>
> In New York, for example, some Sprint PCS subscribers say they have
> trouble making calls on the campus of Columbia University, while
> Cingular subscribers have reported choppy coverage in the heart of
> Central Park. In Chicago, Nextel customers have experienced problems in
> a 10-block stretch of Lake Shore Drive near the Museum of Science and
> Industry, while Cingular subscribers say calls made on highways near
> O'Hare International Airport can easily get dumped.
>
> In New Orleans, service can be spotty for Sprint PCS customers along
> the popular lakefront. Coverage for Verizon Wireless customers in Los
> Angeles can be patchy near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and
> Pacific Coast Highway, two of the city's major arteries.

Future Nobel Prize Winners are being recruited to fix this:

"On March 23, 2000, Bell Labs launched a new research facility in
Beijing, China - Bell Labs Research China (BLRC). It was the first time
in its history that Bell Labs established a research laboratory outside
the United States.

BLRC is a center of technical excellence and innovation to strengthen
the support to Lucent business units and customers in the China and
Asia Pacific region. Primarily, BLRC concentrates its efforts on
applications. It develops innovative ideas on applications, implements
these ideas by prototypes, and transfers these results to Lucent
product houses and Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS). While developing
truly innovative applications, we also do fundamental research in the
fields of Internet technologies, software, wireless communications,
optical networks, computer science, and applied mathematics."
......
Approved by China Ministry of Personnel in late 2003, Bell Labs
Research China becomes one of several foreign research labs in China
that can run the postdoctoral program to attract and nurture more young
talents in China.

Be consistent with the goal of the China Postdoctoral System, the
postdoctoral program at BLRC will provide good working and research
environments for young researchers in China to conduct research in
certain challenging area.

Now, applications are invited for postdoctoral positions at BLRC, for
following projects:

Location-based Multimedia Wireless Network Application
Research on 2.5G, WLAN and upcoming 3G wireless communication for 2008
Olympics

Mao-y Xmas, JG

[email protected] wrote:
> MrPepper11 wrote:
> > One out of three cellphone calls had quality problems last year.
> >
> >> In an attempt to eradicate the dropped calls and dead zones that plague
> > cellphone users, wireless companies have spent small fortunes trying to
> > improve their networks. As part of a telecom mergers boom, last fall,
> > Cingular Wireless bought AT&T Wireless for $41 billion, in part to get
> > access to additional network capacity.
> >
> > But billions of dollars in investments later and several mergers
> > further -- and at a time when some 11 million customers have ditched
> > their traditional phone service and become more reliant on cellphones
> > -- the long-promised improvement still hasn't come. This is an enormous
> > source of bafflement and irritation to consumers, whose patience has
> > begun to run out as evidenced by a continuing high volume of
> > complaints.
> >
> > Roughly one out of three cellphone calls had quality problems of some
> > kind last year, according to an online survey by J.D. Power &
> > Associates of 21,700 wireless customers.
>
> BLRC is a center of technical excellence and innovation to strengthen
> the support to Lucent business units and customers in the China and
> Asia Pacific region. Primarily, BLRC concentrates its efforts on
> applications. It develops innovative ideas on applications, implements
> these ideas by prototypes, and transfers these results to Lucent
> product houses and Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS).


While developing
> truly innovative applications, we also do fundamental research in the
> fields of Internet technologies, software, wireless communications,

And a reply from a self-appointed editor, named by Zee Governator?

"This has nothing to do with cellular, troll.


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(4638)
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"The wisdom of a fool won't set you free"
--New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"

[email protected] wrote:

> And a reply from a self-appointed editor, named by Zee Governator?

What an asshole... posting public copies of private emails.

Let me clue you in...

a) by posting offtopic and posting multiple copies of exactly the same crap,
you're violating your ISP's rules and risking termination of service.

b) No one gives a rat's ass how Lucent screwed you. Get over it. Get over
yourself. Get another job if you haven't already. I'd tell you I sympathize
with your plight, since it's happened to me too, but I don't sympathize with
you because you're an obnoxious twit.


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Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / [email protected] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED

"The wisdom of a fool won't set you free"
--New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"

Steve Sobol wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> > And a reply from a self-appointed editor, named by Zee Governator?
>
> What an asshole... posting public copies of private emails.
>
> Let me clue you in...
>
> a) by posting offtopic and posting multiple copies of exactly the same crap,
> you're violating your ISP's rules and risking termination of service.
>
> b) No one gives a rat's ass how Lucent screwed you. Get over it. Get over
> yourself. Get another job if you haven't already. I'd tell you I sympathize
> with your plight, since it's happened to me too, but I don't sympathize with
> you because you're an obnoxious twit.

That suburban Barstow water must be tainted with some bad stuff. MTBE,
Perclorate?
Nice to hear from a Rove/Gannon/Gluckert bicycling partner.

JG

>
>
> --
> JustThe.net - Apple Valley, CA - http://JustThe.net/ - 888.480.4NET (4638)
> Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / [email protected] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED
>
> "The wisdom of a fool won't set you free"
> --New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"

[email protected] wrote:

> That suburban Barstow water must be tainted with some bad stuff.

a) Barstow is way too small to have suburbs.
b) My water's actually quite clean, thank you. Perhaps something is in your
water.

> Nice to hear from a Rove/Gannon/Gluckert bicycling partner.

Who?

--
JustThe.net - Apple Valley, CA - http://JustThe.net/ - 888.480.4NET (4638)
Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / [email protected] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED

"The wisdom of a fool won't set you free"
--New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"

Jeff Jonas wrote:
> >"Bell Labs Research China provides internship opportunities for
> >undergraduate, graduate students and Ph.D. candidates.
> >
> >On March 23, 2000, Bell Labs launched a new research facility in
> >Beijing, China - Bell Labs Research China (BLRC). It was the first time
> >in its history that Bell Labs established a research laboratory outside
> >the United States.
>
> I am an engineering master's student at NJIT: New Jersey Institute of Technology.
> Many of the professors are ex-Bell Labs, not by choice
> but due to downsizing, cancelled projects and disbanded groups.
> Most of my masters' classmates are from China, India and Pakistan.
> Most of the PhD students are Chinese.
>
> It's bad enough that U.S. citizens are competing just for seats in the class,
> but these foreign classmates are eligible for research jobs
> that I and the professors are not?

Good news for your classmates, Motorola is Hiring!
Job Title: Software Engineer - 3301-J2
Location: Schaumburg, IL
Hours per Week: 40+
Duration of Work: On-Going
Shifts Available: First
Type of Work: Full Time
Salary Range: 66,955
Additional Information: Standard Company Benefits
Duties: Perform design, devpment, codng, testing, resrch, programmng &
documentation for SW systms, applications &/or operatng systems in
conjunction w/ equipment designers &/or HW developers. Multiple
positions open in Arlington Heights, Deer Park, Libertyville, and
Schaumburg, IL.

Bad news, the ads were place by Phoenix AZ immigration lawyers, touting
the
extra 20,000 H1b visas for foreign students with MS and PhDs.

JG

> There are more factors then raw distance, if you're in a building that
> partially blocks the signal, raising the antenna can be enough to get a
> signal through.

With my Sanyo 4900 two years ago, I distinctly had web pages download
faster with the antenna extended (tested for two weeks). So whenever I
noticed one bar or less, I'd raise the antenna. Oddly, it didn't help
with voice calls.

Rod Speed wrote:
> Wrong again. Irrelevant with a digital system, stupid.

Well...at least he demonstrated he doesn't understand communications
systems.

Bet he has no clue why plastic wire ties introduce noise on CAT5 cable.