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- 11 / 7 / 95 -

mmanuel's ISDN woes worsen as NYNEX line quality falls short of expectations, the new NYNEX regional rate plan, an FBI plan to tap 1 in 100 phones is reported in the New York Times, Emmanuel and Phiber disagree on the legality of encrypted cellular phones, 888 is officially announced and Emmanuel finds an error in the AT&T statement, Emmanuel gets a letter from the Critical Payments Unit, an update on the Long Distance Wholesale Club, Phiber defends New York City's yellow phones, a listener with an interesting background is concerned over misuse of voice recognition, Blake predicts the end of long distance, Jim comments on a Metrocard article in the Daily News.

Nov. 7

- 11 / 14 / 95 -

uest is Dov Wisebrod of LoGIC, the Legal Group for the Internet in Canada, discussing the Jesse Hirsh case. Also, telephone calls and an update on the 1-800-MY-ANI-IS service.

Nov. 14

- 11 / 21 / 95 -

irst show from the brand new temporary studio. News updates: 911 service, air traffic control outages, AOL Gold, the new NYNEX calling plans. First calls on the new phone system, Joker reviews "Virtual City," a caller defends AT&T against Emmanuel's attack two weeks ago.

Nov. 21

- 11 / 28 / 95 -

etting "Off The Hook" on the net, the new WBAI phone system allows callers to be put on hold, Bernie S. update, overview of the Mitnick books, Don Delaney statements, NYNEX employee regulations, PSI update, the WBAI web page, monitoring through payphones. The initial method of getting the show onto the net was rather complex - the shows were first recorded as .wav files, then converted to .au format finally compressed into a gsm file. The end user had to have the appropriate gsm player on their home system and real time streaming wasn't possible. It would be more than a year before the show would be available on Realaudio, which was far easier to use and had a better sound with no increase in file size.

Nov. 28