Nicron #74 05 февраля 1998

Press - Problems with phone bullies at MGTS. Article from the newspaper "MK".

    MGTS: deign to joke, sir?

(C) Oscar.

 Hello people! Accidentally bought the MC for Friday 
(06/02/1998) and found two rather interesting articles. One of 
them I perepechatl NICRON'a to that number, and another the 
next. Second, I think so, would be more interesting and quite 
another topic. More I have here I will not write, and just say: 
"Wait a fresh NICRON! ". Bye!


(C) Alla Komarova.
Reprints: Oscar.

 Just last year, MGTS received 2,409 complaints about the 
strange "Behavior" of telephones. They then switched off, then 
rang as if the twin, and out of the tube could be heard at 
times someone lively conversation. There are also just 
anecdotal cases.  Lived in peace one old woman, at home 
seldom-visited all the children so grandchildren. And suddenly 
it becomes clear that an innocent granny-God Dandelion really 
sexy manyachka. For two months, she talked a right on to 8 
million rubles.  In fact, it turned out that the grandmother's 
room quietly connected her young neighbor, a homosexual and 
thus celebrated its needs. But for all official checks out what 
my grandmother secretly thought of youth: on the equipment that 
determines the number of users, lit only her phone.  Failed to 
pay the old lady is not going to talk as all the other victims 
phone piracy. Before such debts are (The largest in memory of 
staff MGTS was 40 million rubles, "old") were written off. Now 
MMT and Rostelecom to reimburse at least part of them. (This, 
by the way, talking about billions rubles.) Who will pay? 
Neither the new Federal Communications Act nor the rules of the 
exchanges, operating since January 1998, no no word on 
punishment for telephone piracy. As if all these five years, 
nothing had happened. Our biggest telephone monopolies have not 
even thought about how to secure 4 million subscribers.  
Meanwhile, the ranks of telephone hooligans joined the 
representatives of "Brotherhood" of Asian peoples, who occupied 
Moscow dormitory. Trades telephone "Tale" at Miusskaya, Lenin, 
Cheremyshenskom, Timiryazev, Dzerzhinsk and Krasnogvardejskiy 
phone sites. Using a cell phone and straight sensor craftsmen 
offer in their rooms the whole negotiating settlements. Freeze 
them first on the home cordless phones: the wireless devices 
the most vulnerable. From the pirates do not save them, even 
various certificates of quality. Vietnamese-Korean pirate 
stations often arranged so catchy that our repairers are not 
immediately can understand them.  Yes there repairers! Titled 
MGTS engineers still do not were able to pinpoint the 
infestation. Their only invention-coded number, which with the 
introduction of hourly pay received by each subscriber. If they 
try to take advantage of an outsider, a telephone line 
immediately shut down. In MGTS this invention, which is plainly 
and to the mind is not brought, say almost the technology of 
XXI century. It's no joke, nowhere in the world, such systems 
do not exist. No need. Foreign nationals, are honest men, to 
experiment with neighbor's phone no one is going.

 It is only in this country for five years could not think of 
anything clever to put councils often the portable on the 
lever. Yes, they took for fashion off from time to time 
automatic long-distance communication. A telephone operator at 
least take more, but the enemies of the phone line does not 
penetrate. 


Punctuation and spelling observed!

                        Alla Komarova.
                        newspaper "MK"
                   Reprint of newspaper into a computer
                   "NICRON" - Oscar.

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