On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:44:39 -0600, OM wrote:

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:07:38 GMT, * wrote:


The point is, Lockheed is controlling the phone companies.

...Yeah, and drugs fried your addled mind.

I don't take drugs, so by your logic the above statement is correct.

And it is.

snip swoon

Lockheed's telephone satellites:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/0003/01garuda1orbit/

http://www.lmtas.com/contacts/

http://www.npac.com/docs/NeuStar_Pre...ase120199.html

http://www.nanpa.com/

http://www.gis.net/~larrabee/LM****ch.htm

http://telephonyonline.com/ar/teleco...heed/index.htm



http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st.../335014&EDATE=

Lockheed Martin IMS to Administer North America's Telephone Numbering System

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin IMS today announced
that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued an order
selecting
the company to serve as the administrator of North America's telephone
numbering system.
While final terms of the agreement are still being negotiated, the
five-year contract is valued at about $25 million. As a neutral,
third-party
provider of telecommunications services, Lockheed Martin IMS will oversee
the
assignment of area codes, three-digit central office codes, carrier
identification codes and other numbering resources throughout the United
States, Canada, Bermuda and much of the Caribbean.
"Number administration is a critical part of North America's
telecommunication industry. The demand for telephone numbers to feed fax
machines, the Internet, cell phones and other new technologies is booming,"
said Jeffrey Ganek, senior vice president and managing director of
communications industry services for Lockheed Martin IMS. "Lockheed Martin
IMS has already assembled a team of highly seasoned, technical professionals
to meet the growing needs of the telecommunications industry, ensure a level
playing field for competitors and enhance the quality of services to phone
customers throughout North America."
In addition to monitoring North America's 225 area codes and more than
180,000 local exchanges, the company will analyze trends within area codes
to
determine when available numbers will be depleted within a code area. It
will
then assist the local phone industry and regulators in proposing relief
plans.
The FCC's selection of Lockheed Martin IMS as the North American
Numbering
Plan Administrator (NANPA) was recommended last May by the North American
Numbering Council.
The project will be headed by Ron Conners, the former director NANPA
administration at Bellcore, who was hired by Lockheed Martin IMS in
September
because of his expertise in number plan administration.

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Headquartered in Teaneck, N.J., Lockheed Martin IMS is a leader in
providing sole-source, third-party services to the telecommunications
industry. The company developed the nation's first-of-its-kind Number
Portability Administration Center and Service Management System (NPAC/SMS)
in Chicago. Through this state-of-the-art facility, the company will
provide local number portability services to telephone companies in the
Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic, the Northeast and the Southwest regions. Local
number portability allows customers to keep their existing telephone number
if they switch to a new service provider.
For five years, Lockheed Martin IMS also administered the 800-number
telephone number database for the telecommunications industry.
IMS is a subsidiary of global technology leader Lockheed Martin
Corporation (NYSE: LMT), headquartered in Bethesda, Md.
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