Monday, June 14, 2010
Switching from landlines to cell phones.
The majority of our owners have cell phones and would like to get rid of their landlines to save money. Our board members have voted to allow cell phone use for our owners who wish to do so. How do we inform U.C.O. of this change in our by-laws? How do we inform U.C.O. of our new phone numbers? Thank you in advance for your response.
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ReplyDeleteThank you both, Dave & elaineb for your prompt response. We will comply with these new rules.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very bad idea. Should be interesting to see who will be using our pools.
ReplyDeleteHi Mike,
ReplyDeleteJune 16, 2010 3:29 PM,
Which way do you want it, do you want UCO to determine your Associations guest entry policy; or should the Association determine it's guest entry policy?
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it!
Dave Israel
Hi Mike
ReplyDeleteOur Ass'n went this route to be able to use the cell phone at least 6 months ago. When we did this, on the sheet we turned into UCO, we also had to say that it was understood that if a cell were used anywhere except in the unit and the unit owner was known to do this, they would be barred from the call in system. As Dave said, it is an Ass'ns call
Ken
With families having cellphones for all members, including children, being able to track a cellphone by GPS makes families feel more secure about keeping track of the members. Most cellphones with GPS capabilities will emit a continuous signal so parents can find their child in real time and know if they are where they are supposed to be at any given time of the day.
ReplyDeleteThis info came from the site http://www.globaleverywhere.com/track_a_cellphone_by_gps.htm
One of my neighbors has upgraded to AT&T "UVerse" service, in conjunction with which he has a regular house phone with a wire or cable (in other words, he CANNOT take this phone anywhere as he could with a cell phone).
ReplyDeleteIs it true that UCO cannot, without our association okaying cell phones, connect him up to the call-in system?
I don't understand the technology, but I have been told that UVerse uses a router rather than a modem (for the computer) and uses fiber-optic cable, but also uses the air waves, which makes it sound like a kind of hybrid to me. My main question is the one above: Is this setup, which would seem to be the coming thing, considered a cell phone insofar as connecting with the Village automatic call-in system is concerned?
Hi Lanny,
ReplyDeleteJune 19, 2010 9:27 AM,
U-Verse is in a class of Technology called VoIP = Voice over Internet Protocol. It is transmitted principally over AT&T's Fiber Optic network; with the "last mile" component on their legacy copper connections into your home. Thus the Fiber Closets that you have watched being installed all over the Village for the past year.
Your voice is digitized and turned into a string of 1's and 0's which is multiplexed with your high speed Internet connection. The process of digitizing your speech is called generically "Analog to Digital Conversion" in discussions among Technicians the term used is "A to D conversion, or simply ADC"
In the case of long distance calls, part of the transmission path may include segments of Terrestrial Radio Relay (TRR); this by the way also occurs in the case of POTS (Plain Old Telephone System), which we have lived with for decades.
This simply means that your call, along with thousands of others is modulated onto a Radio Frequency (RF)
Carrier and transmitted from tower to tower at microwave frequencies until it reaches a Ground Insertion Point near to the person you are calling.
In either case, POTS or U-Verse, both are, by definition, landline Telephones. A problem may arise in UCO, because all of the VoIP Telephony providers; EG. Comcast, AT&T ETC... purchase number blocks which may be designated by NANPA (North American Numbering Plan Administration) as Land line or Cellular blocks.
This is happening for the simple reason that we are running out of telephone numbers and in due course will be forced to revamp the entire Global numbering plan.
With the massive Technological shift to digital networks and computer driven switching and multiplexing, it is not clear as to whether or not all digital instruments in the future, which connect to "The Network or Big Switch" may end up being assigned an IP (Internet Protocol) address.
This would formally recognize the fact that it matters not where the bits come from; "Bits is Bits"
If anyone has a problem registering any of these VoIP phones in UCO make sure that you insist that the issue be referred to me, rather than arguing with the front desk.
Dave Israel
Everything that I read what
ReplyDeleteDavid posted is completely
GREEK to me. I remember our
1st telephone (we were the last
on the block to get one) and
the telephone had a round base
and a long narrow post and on
the left side was a gadget which
when the telephone rang 2 short
rings (back then it was called
a party line) we picked it up
and placed it to our ear and
spoke into the round speaker
that was to the top of the long
post. If the telephone only
rang one long ring we would be
nosy and quietly picked up the
ear piece and listen. I think
I just gave my age away.
Thank you for your clear and concice answer, Dave. Could understand easily, even before the Java took hold!
ReplyDeleteHi Mariel,
ReplyDeletePlease have your Board write a letter indicating that you had a Board meeting at which a vote was taken to make your Association cell phone compliant for use in our call-in system.
Send or present the letter, signed and sealed by two Board members, to UCO.
Thence forth any unit owner in your association may register his/her cell number for call-in.
Dave Israel
June 14, 2010 10:49 AM