Call and Response Telephone Compilations (CRTC) issue 2, volume 1, October 2001 'Not In Service' ;-` # Staff: * Editor-In-Chief - The Clone * Contribution - Alan, Flopik, Magma, Nestor, phlux, RT, The Clone # Contact: * E-mail: theclone@hackcanada.com * IRC: irc.2600.net (#cpu / #hackcanada) * Web-Site: www.nettwerked.net/cpu '-; ;-' # Content: * 'A Brief Introduction' [ The Clone ] * 'Fun With Telus VMBs' [ TEKK250 ] * 'The G.E.T.S. (Government Emergency Telephone System) Paper' [m4chine] # Other Stuff: * The Canadian Scene - NOW * Reader Feedback '-; You are currently reading the second issue of CRTC... Congratulations. Prepare yourselves for a monthly compilation of 100% telecom information. CRTC is accepting all telecom related information - whether you're in western or eastern Canada, USA, or anywhere else in the world, we will add your article after it meets certain criteria. Certain Criteria: 1. Article must be original; written by you, or you and another writer. 2. Article must be telecom related. 3. Article must be proof-read before sent to me. Where to send articles: SEND ALL ARTICLES TO: theclone@hackcanada.com We will contact you if we decide to put your article in upcoming CRTC issues. (Note: please e-mail your articles in plain text format *ONLY*) - "Fun With Telus VMB's" By: tekk250 (tek-know@phreaker.net) Date: Oct. 9, 2001 ~ INTRO This text simply describes how to scan for Telus VMB's and send messages directly to other Telus VMB's (VMB = Voicemail Box) 1) Accessing VMB's There are two ways that I know of to access Telus VMB's. The first one is the older way, by dialing 881-9000. If there is a VMB set up for the line you will hear a recording of the user saying their name, then will be prompted to enter is the correct 4 digit passcode. If there is no VMB set up on the line you will have to hit # followed the phone number of the VMB you wish to access. After entering in the number you will hear the user's recording then will be prompted to enter the passcode. The second way is to access the VMB is by pressing *98 from a line with a VMB. If there isn't one on that line you will simply hear "We're sorry this call cannot be completed as dialed". If there is one on the line you will go through the same procedure as above. 2) Sending Out Messages to Other VMBs It is very easy to find other lines with mailboxes, by using the VMB you are currently in. After accessing a VMB you can simply press 2. You will then be prompted to record a message. After doing so press 1 to hear it and # to send it. You will then be asked to enter the "destination mailbox number". After this you are set to send out the message. This will not cause the phone to ring at the specified mailbox, the message will simply be leftin the mailbox. 3) Scanning for other VMBs Using the above 881 9000 procedure above you can simply scan for VMB's. After entering 881 9000 you will be prompted to enter in a mailbox in the (XXX) XXX-XXXX format. You will then either hear the users recording or a message telling you there is no mailbox at the target number. Lord knows why you'd wan to do this but hey you may find your own reasons. -- 'The G.E.T.S. (Government Emergency Telephone System) Paper' - Written by: m4chine Date: Tuesday October 02, 2001 - E-mail: m4chine@fucktelus.com Disclaimer: This paper has been written to educate the public. This paper was not written to make terrorists more creative or make life easier for wannabe phone phreaks. Don't attempt any of the stuff written about in this paper. God bless freedom of information... =- - Disclaimer - - G.E.T.S. ACT - - Social Engineering - - Dial Up Numbers - - Conclusion - =- Government Emergency Telephone System ACT -- Sec. 0.01. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Emergency Telephone System Act". (Source: P.A. 85-978.) Sec. 1. The General Assembly finds and declares that it is in the public interest to shorten the time required for a citizen to request and receive emergency aid. There currently exist thousands of different emergency phone numbers throughout the state, and present telephone exchange boundaries and central office service areas do not necessarily correspond to public safety and political boundaries. Provision of a single, primary three-digit emergency number through which emergency services can be quickly and efficiently obtained would provide a significant contribution to law enforcement and other public service efforts by making it less difficult to quickly notify public safety personnel. Such a simplified means of procuring emergency services will result in the saving of life, a reduction in the destruction of property, quicker apprehension of criminals, and ultimately the saving of money. The General Assembly further finds and declares that the establishment of a uniform, statewide emergency number is a matter of statewide concern and interest to all inhabitants and citizens of this State. It is the purpose of this Act to establish the number "9-1-1" as the primary emergency telephone number for use in this State and to encourage units of local government and combinations of such units to develop and improve emergency communication procedures and facilities in such a manner as to be able to quickly respond to any person calling the telephone number "9-1-1" seeking police, fire, medical, rescue, and other emergency services. (Source: P.A. 85-978.) Sec. 2. As used in this Act, the terms defined in Sections following this Section and preceding Section 3 have the meanings ascribed to them in those Sections. (Source: P.A. 88-497.) Sec. 2.01. "Public agency" means the State, and any unit of local government or special purpose district located in whole or in part within this State which provides or has authority to provide firefighting, police, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 2.02. "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a public agency which provides firefighting, police, medical, or other emergency services. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 2.03. "Direct dispatch method" means a telephone service providing for the dispatch of an appropriate emergency service unit upon receipt of a telephone request for such services and a decision as to the proper action to be taken. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 2.04. "Relay method" means a telephone service whereby pertinent information is noted by the recipient of a telephone request for emergency services, and is relayed to appropriate public safety agencies or other providers of emergency services for dispatch of an emergency service unit. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 2.05. "Transfer method" means a telephone service which receives telephone requests for emergency services and directly transfers such requests to an appropriate public safety agency or other provider of emergency services. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 2.06. "Referral method" means a telephone service which, upon the receipt of a telephone request for emergency services, provides the requesting party with the telephone number of the appropriate public safety agency or other provider of emergency services. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 2.06a. System. "System" means the communications equipment required to produce a response by the appropriate emergency public safety agency as a result of an emergency call being placed to 9-1-1. (Source: P.A. 87-1244; 88-604, eff. 9-1-94.) Sec. 2.07. "Basic system" means a telephone service which automatically connects a person dialing the digits "911" to an established public safety answering point through normal telephone service facilities. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 2.08. "Sophisticated system" means a basic system with the additional capability of automatic identification of the caller's number, holding the incoming call, reconnection on the same telephone line, clearing a telephone line, or automatic call routing or any other capability or features then available or combinations of such capabilities. (Source: P.A. 85-978.) Sec. 2.09. "Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 2.10. "Implementation date" means the effective date of a public act, other than this amendatory Act of 1987, providing all local public agencies affected by this Act with a specific source or sources of revenue for payment of the total costs of establishing or upgrading, operating and maintaining the emergency telephone systems required by this Act. (Source: P.A. 85-978.) Sec. 2.11. "Board" means an Emergency Telephone System Board or a Joint Emergency Telephone System Board created pursuant to Section 15.4. (Source: P.A. 85-978.) Sec. 2.12. (a) For the purposes of this Act, "network connections" means the number of voice grade communications channels directly between a subscriber and a telecommunications carrier's public switched network without the intervention of any other telecommunications carrier's switched network which would be required to carry the subscriber's inter-premises traffic, which connection either (1) is capable of providing access through the public switched network to a 9-1-1 Emergency Telephone System if one exists, or, (2) if no system exists at the time a surcharge is imposed under Section 15.3 which would be capable of providing access through the public switched network to the local 9-1-1 Emergency Telephone System if one existed. (b) For the purposes of this Act, no telecommunications carrier providing facilities-based local exchange telecommunications service prior to January 1, 1986 shall be required to offer or provide sophisticated 9-1-1 system features such as selective call routing in any area where that carrier's local switching facility does not have the capability to do so. (c) For the purposes of this Act, "telecommunication carrier" does not include a cellular or other mobile communication carrier. (Source: P.A. 86-101; 87-167.) Sec. 2.13. "Transmitting messages" shall have the meaning ascribed to the term in Section 8-11-2 of the Illinois Municipal Code. (Source: P.A. 85-978.) Sec. 2.14. Automatic alarm; automatic alerting device. "Automatic alarm" and "automatic alerting device" mean any device that will access the 9-1-1 system for emergency services upon activation. (Source: P.A. 88-497.) Sec. 2.15. Mechanical dialer. "Mechanical dialer" means any device that either manually or remotely triggers a dialing device to access the 9-1-1 system. (Source: P.A. 88-497.) Sec. 2.16. Private business switch service. "Private business switch service" means a telecommunications service including centrex type service and private branch exchange service (PBX), even though key telephone systems or equivalent telephone systems registered with the FCC under 47 C.F.R. Part 68 are directly connected to centrex type and PBX systems providing 9-1-1 services equipped for switched local network connections or 9-1-1 system access to business end users through a private telephone switch. The term "private business switch service" does not include key telephone systems or equivalent telephone systems registered with the FCC under 47 C.F.R. Part 68 when not used in conjunction with centrex type and PBX systems. "Private business switch service" typically includes, but is not limited to, private businesses, corporations, and industries where the telecommunications service is primarily for conducting business. (Source: P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94; 89-497, eff. 6-27-96.) Sec. 2.17. Private residential switch service. "Private residential switch service" means a telecommunications service including centrex type service and private branch exchange service (PBX), even though key telephone systems or equivalent telephone systems registered with the FCC under 47 C.F.R. Part 68 are directly connected to centrex type and PBX systems providing 9-1-1 services equipped for switched local network connections or 9-1-1 system access to residential end users through a private telephone switch. The term "private residential switch service" does not include key telephone systems or equivalent telephone systems registered with the FCC under 47 C.F.R. Part 68 when not used in conjunction with centrex type and PBX systems. "Private residential switch service" typically includes, but is not limited to apartment complexes, condominiums, and campus or university environments where shared tenant service is provided and where the usage of the telecommunications service is primarily residential. (Source: P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94; 89-497, eff. 6-27-96.) Sec. 2.18. System provider. "System provider" means the contracted entity providing 9-1-1 network and database services. (Source: P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94.) Sec. 2.19. 9-1-1 system. "9-1-1 system" means the geographic area that has been granted an order of authority by the Commission to use "9-1-1" as the primary emergency telephone number. (Source: P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94.) Sec. 3. Every local public agency in a county having 100,000 or more inhabitants, within its respective jurisdiction, shall establish and have in operation within 3 years after the implementation date or by December 31, 1985, whichever is later, a basic or sophisticated system as specified in this Act. Other public agencies may establish such a system, and shall be entitled to participate in any program of grants or other State funding of such systems. The establishment of such systems shall be centralized to the extent feasible. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit or discourage in any way the formation of multijurisdictional or regional systems, and any system established pursuant to this Act may include the territory of more than one public agency or may include a segment of the territory of a public agency. (Source: P.A. 81-1509.) Sec. 4. Every system shall include police, firefighting, and emergency medical and ambulance services, and may include other emergency services, in the discretion of the affected local public agency, such as poison control services, suicide prevention services, and civil defense services. The system may incorporate private ambulance service. In those areas in which a public safety agency of the state provides such emergency services, the system shall include such public safety agencies. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 5. The digits "9-1-1" shall be the primary emergency telephone number within the system, but a public agency or public safety agency shall maintain a separate secondary seven digit emergency backup number for at least six months after the "9-1-1" system is established and in operation, and shall maintain a separate number for nonemergency telephone calls. (Source: P.A. 85-978.) Sec. 6. Capabilities of system; pay telephones. All systems shall be designed to meet the specific requirements of each community and public agency served by the system. Every system, whether basic or sophisticated, shall be designed to have the capability of utilizing at least 1 of the methods specified in Sections 2.03 through 2.06, in response to emergency calls. The General Assembly finds and declares that the most critical aspect of the design of any system is the procedure established for handling a telephone request for emergency services. In addition, to maximize efficiency and utilization of the system, all pay telephones within each system shall, within 3 years after the implementation date or by December 31, 1985, whichever is later, enable a caller to dial "9-1-1" for emergency services without the necessity of inserting a coin. This paragraph does not apply to pay telephones located in penal institutions, as defined in Section 2-14 of the Criminal Code of 1961, that have been designated for the exclusive use of committed persons. (Source: P.A. 91-518, eff. 8-13-99.) Sec. 6.1. The Commission shall require that every 9-1-1 system be readily accessible to hearing-impaired and voice-impaired individuals through the use of telecommunications technology for hearing-impaired and speech-impaired individuals. As used in this Section: "Hearing-impaired individual" means a person with a permanent hearing loss who can regularly and routinely communicate by telephone only through the aid of devices which can send and receive written messages over the telephone network. "Voice-impaired individual" means a person with a permanent speech disability which precludes oral communication, who can regularly and routinely communicate by telephone only through the aid of devices which can send and receive written messages over the telephone network. "Telecommunications technology" means equipment that can send and receive written messages over the telephone network. (Source: P.A. 87-146.) Sec. 7. The General Assembly finds that, because of overlapping jurisdiction of public agencies, public safety agencies and telephone service areas, the Commission shall establish a general overview or plan to effectuate the purposes of this Act within the time frame provided in this Act. In order to insure that proper preparation and implementation of emergency telephone systems are accomplished by all public agencies in a county having 100,000 or more inhabitants within 3 years after the implementation date or by December 31, 1985, whichever is later, the Commission, with the advice and assistance of the Attorney General, shall secure compliance by public agencies as provided in this Act. (Source: P.A. 81-1122.) Sec. 8. The Commission, with the advice and assistance of the Attorney General, shall coordinate the implementation of systems established under this Act. The Commission, with the advice and assistance of the Attorney General, shall assist local public agencies and local public safety agencies in obtaining financial help to establish emergency telephone service, and shall aid such agencies in the formulation of concepts, methods, and procedures which will improve the operation of systems required by this Act and which will increase cooperation between public safety agencies. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 9. To accomplish the responsibilities specified in this Act, the Commission is directed to consult at regular intervals with the State Fire Marshal, the Department of Public Health, the Department of Transportation, the public utilities in this State providing telephone service, the Department of State Police, and the State Division of Forestry. Such agencies shall provide all necessary assistance and consultation to the Commission to enable it to perform its duties specified in this Act. (Source: P.A. 84-25.) Sec. 10. Technical and operational standards for the development of the local agency systems shall be established and reviewed by the Commission on or before December 31, 1979, after consultation with all agencies specified in Section 9. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 10.1. 9-1-1 information consisting of names, addresses and telephone numbers of telephone customers whose listings are not published in directories or listed in Directory Assistance Offices is confidential. Information shall be provided on a call-by-call basis only for the purpose of responding to emergency calls. Divulging confidential information in violation of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 87-146.) Sec. 10.2. The Emergency Telephone System Board in any county passing a referendum under Section 15.3, and the Chairman of the County Board in any county implementing a 9-1-1 system shall ensure that all areas of the county are included in the system. (Source: P.A. 87-146.) Sec. 10.3. Notice of address change. The Emergency Telephone System Board in any county implementing a 9-1-1 system that changes any person's address (when the person whose address has changed has not moved to a new residence) shall notify the person (i) of the person's new address and (ii) that the person should contact the local election authority to determine if the person should re-register to vote. (Source: P.A. 90-664, eff. 7-30-98.) Sec. 11. Within one year after the implementation date or by January 31, 1980, whichever is later, all public agencies in a county having 100,000 or more inhabitants shall submit tentative plans of the establishment of a system required by this Act to the public utility or utilities providing public telephone service within the respective jurisdiction of each public agency. A copy of each such plan shall be filed with the Commission. Within 2 years after the implementation date or by January 31, 1982, whichever is later, all public agencies in a county having 100,000 or more inhabitants shall submit final plans for the establishment of the system to such utilities, and shall make arrangements with such utilities for the implementation of the planned emergency telephone system no later than 3 years after the implementation date or by December 31, 1985, whichever is later. A copy of the plan required by this subdivision shall be filed with the Commission. In order to secure compliance with the standards promulgated under Section 10, the Commission shall have the power to approve or disapprove such plan, unless such plan was announced before the effective date of this Act. If any public agency has implemented or is a part of a system required by this Act on a deadline specified in this Section, such public agency shall submit in lieu of the tentative or final plan a report describing the system and stating its operational date. Plans filed under this Section shall conform to minimum standards established pursuant to Section 10. (Source: P.A. 81-1122.) Sec. 12. The Attorney General may, in behalf of the Commission or on his own initiative, commence judicial proceedings to enforce compliance by any public agency or public utility providing telephone service with this Act. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) Sec. 13. On or before February 16, 1979, and again on or before February 16, 1981, the Commission shall report to the General Assembly the progress in the implementation of systems required by this Act. Such reports shall contain his recommendations for additional legislation. In December of 1979 and in December of 1980 the Commission, with the advice and assistance of the Attorney General, shall submit recommendations to the Bureau of the Budget and to the Governor specifying amounts necessary to further implement the organization of telephone systems specified in this Act during the succeeding fiscal year. The report specified in this paragraph shall contain, in addition, an estimate of the fiscal impact to local public agencies which will be caused by implementation of this Act. By March 1 in 1979 and every even-numbered year thereafter, each telephone company shall file a report with the Commission and the General Assembly specifying, in such detail as the Commission has by rule or regulation required, the extent to which it has implemented a planned emergency telephone system and its projected further implementation of such a system. The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly shall be satisfied by filing copies of the report with the Speaker, the Minority Leader and the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the President, the Minority Leader and the Secretary of the Senate and the Legislative Research Unit, as required by Section 3.1 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to the General Assembly", approved February 25, 1874, as amended, and filing such additional copies with the State Government Report Distribution Center for the General Assembly as is required under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State Library Act. (Source: P.A. 84-1438.) Sec. 14. The General Assembly declares that a major purpose in enacting this Act is to eliminate instances in which a responding emergency service refuses to render aid to the requester because the requester is outside of the jurisdictional boundaries of the emergency service. Therefore, in implementing systems under this Act, all public agencies in a single system shall enter into a joint powers agreement or any other form of written cooperative agreement which is applicable when need arises on a day-to-day basis. Certified notification of the continuation of such agreements shall be made among the involved parties on an annual basis. In addition, such agreements shall be entered into between public agencies and public safety agencies which are part of different systems but whose jurisdictional boundaries are contiguous. The agreements shall provide that, once an emergency unit is dispatched in response to a request through the system, such unit shall render its services to the requesting party without regard to whether the unit is operating outside its normal jurisdictional boundaries. (Source: P.A. 86-101.) Sec. 15. Copies of the annual certified notification of continuing agreement required by Section 14 shall be filed with the Attorney General and the Commission. Commencing with the year 1987, all such agreements shall be so filed prior to the 31st day of January. The Attorney General shall commence judicial proceedings to enforce compliance with this Section and Section 14, where a public agency or public safety agency has failed to timely enter into such agreement or file copies thereof. (Source: P.A. 86-101.) Sec. 15.1. Public body; exemption from civil liability for developing or operating emergency telephone system. No public agency, public safety agency, emergency telephone system board, or unit of local government assuming the duties of an emergency telephone system board, nor any officer, agent or employee of any public agency, public safety agency, emergency telephone system board, or unit of local government assuming the duties of an emergency telephone system board, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission, except willful or wanton misconduct, in connection with developing, adopting, operating or implementing any plan or system required by this Act. Exemption from civil liability for emergency instructions is as provided in the Good Samaritan Act. This Section may not be offered as a defense in any judicial proceeding brought by the Attorney General under Section 12 to compel compliance with this Act. (Source: P.A. 89-403, eff. 1-1-96; 89-607, eff. 1-1-97.) Sec. 15.2. Any person calling the number "911" for the purpose of making a false alarm or complaint and reporting false information is subject to the provisions of Section 26-1 of the Criminal Code of 1961. (Source: P.A. 90-456, eff. 1-1-98.) Sec. 15.2a. The installation of or connection to a telephone company's network of any automatic alarm, automatic alerting device, or mechanical dialer that causes the number 9-1-1 to be dialed in order to directly access emergency services is prohibited in a 9-1-1 system. Violation of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation of this Section is a Class 4 felony. (Source: P.A. 87-146; 88-497.) Sec. 15.2b. Emergency telephone number; advertising. No person or private entity may advertise or otherwise publicize the availability of services provided by a specific provider and indicate that a consumer should obtain access to services provided by a specific provider by use of the emergency telephone number (9-1-1). (Source: P.A. 88-497.) Sec. 15.3. (a) The corporate authorities of any municipality or any county may, subject to the limitations of subsections (c), (d), and (h), and in addition to any tax levied pursuant to Section 8-11-2 of the Illinois Municipal Code, impose a monthly surcharge on billed subscribers of network connection provided by telecommunication carriers engaged in the business of transmitting messages by means of electricity originating within the corporate limits of the municipality or county imposing the surcharge at a rate per network connection determined in accordance with subsection (c). A municipality may enter into an intergovernmental agreement with any county in which it is partially located, when the county has adopted an ordinance to impose a surcharge as provided in subsection (c), to include that portion of the municipality lying outside the county in that county's surcharge referendum. If the county's surcharge referendum is approved, the portion of the municipality identified in the intergovernmental agreement shall automatically be disconnected from the county in which it lies and connected to the county which approved the referendum for purposes of a surcharge on telecommunications carriers. (b) For purposes of computing the surcharge imposed by subsection (a), the network connections to which the surcharge shall apply shall be those in-service network connections, other than those network connections assigned to the municipality or county, where the service address for each such network connection or connections is located within the corporate limits of the municipality or county levying the surcharge. The "service address" shall mean the location of the primary use of the network connection or connections. With respect to network connections provided for use with pay telephone services for which there is no billed subscriber, the telecommunications carrier providing the network connection shall be deemed to be its own billed subscriber for purposes of applying the surcharge. (c) Upon the passage of an ordinance to impose a surcharge under this Section the clerk of the municipality or county shall certify the question of whether the surcharge may be imposed to the proper election authority who shall submit the public question to the electors of the municipality or county in accordance with the general election law; provided that such question shall not be submitted at a consolidated primary election. The public question shall be in substantially the following form: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shall the county (or city, village or incorporated town) of.....impose YES a surcharge of up to...¢ per month per network connection, which surcharge will be added to the monthly bill you receive ----------------------------- for telephone or telecommunications charges, for the purpose of installing (or improving) a 9-1-1 Emergency NO Telephone System? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If a majority of the votes cast upon the public question are in favor thereof, the surcharge shall be imposed. However, if a Joint Emergency Telephone System Board is to be created pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement under Section 15.4, the ordinance to impose the surcharge shall be subject to the approval of a majority of the total number of votes cast upon the public question by the electors of all of the municipalities or counties, or combination thereof, that are parties to the intergovernmental agreement. The referendum requirement of this subsection (c) shall not apply to any municipality with a population over 500,000 or to any county in which a proposition as to whether a sophisticated 9-1-1 Emergency Telephone System should be installed in the county, at a cost not to exceed a specified monthly amount per network connection, has previously been approved by a majority of the electors of the county voting on the proposition at an election conducted before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987. (d) A county may not impose a surcharge, unless requested by a municipality, in any incorporated area which has previously approved a surcharge as provided in subsection (c) or in any incorporated area where the corporate authorities of the municipality have previously entered into a binding contract or letter of intent with a telecommunications carrier to provide sophisticated 9-1-1 service through municipal funds. (e) A municipality or county may at any time by ordinance change the rate of the surcharge imposed under this Section if the new rate does not exceed the rate specified in the referendum held pursuant to subsection (c). (f) The surcharge authorized by this Section shall be collected from the subscriber by the telecommunications carrier providing the subscriber the network connection as a separately stated item on the subscriber's bill. (g) The amount of surcharge collected by the telecommunications carrier shall be paid to the particular municipality or county or Joint Emergency Telephone System Board not later than 30 days after the surcharge is collected, net of any network or other 9-1-1 or sophisticated 9-1-1 system charges then due the particular telecommunications carrier, as shown on an itemized bill. The telecommunications carrier collecting the surcharge shall also be entitled to deduct 3% of the gross amount of surcharge collected to reimburse the telecommunications carrier for the expense of accounting and collecting the surcharge. (h) A municipality with a population over 500,000 may not impose a monthly surcharge in excess of $1.25 per network connection. (i) Any municipality or county or joint emergency telephone system board that has imposed a surcharge pursuant to this Section prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990 shall hereafter impose the surcharge in accordance with subsection (b) of this Section. (j) The corporate authorities of any municipality or county may issue, in accordance with Illinois law, bonds, notes or other obligations secured in whole or in part by the proceeds of the surcharge described in this Section. Notwithstanding any change in law subsequent to the issuance of any bonds, notes or other obligations secured by the surcharge, every municipality or county issuing such bonds, notes or other obligations shall be authorized to impose the surcharge as though the laws relating to the imposition of the surcharge in effect at the time of issuance of the bonds, notes or other obligations were in full force and effect until the bonds, notes or other obligations are paid in full. The State of Illinois pledges and agrees that it will not limit or alter the rights and powers vested in municipalities and counties by this Section to impose the surcharge so as to impair the terms of or affect the security for bonds, notes or other obligations secured in whole or in part with the proceeds of the surcharge described in this Section. (k) Any surcharge collected by or imposed on a telecommunications carrier pursuant to this Section shall be held to be a special fund in trust for the municipality, county or Joint Emergency Telephone Board imposing the surcharge. Except for the 3% deduction provided in subsection (g) above, the special fund shall not be subject to the claims of creditors of the telecommunication carrier. (Source: P.A. 86-101; 86-1344.) Sec. 15.4. Emergency Telephone System Board; powers. (a) The corporate authorities of any county or municipality that imposes a surcharge under Section 15.3 shall establish an Emergency Telephone System Board. The corporate authorities shall provide for the manner of appointment and the number of members of the Board, provided that the board shall consist of not fewer than 5 members, one of whom may be a public member who is a resident of the local exchange service territory included in the 9-1-1 coverage area, one of whom (in counties with a population less than 100,000) may be a member of the county board, and at least 3 of whom shall be representative of the 9-1-1 public safety agencies, including but not limited to police departments, fire departments, emergency medical services providers, and emergency services and disaster agencies, and appointed on the basis of their ability or experience. Elected officials are also eligible to serve on the board. Members of the board shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses. Any 2 or more municipalities, counties, or combination thereof, that impose a surcharge under Section 15.3 may, instead of establishing individual boards, establish by intergovernmental agreement a Joint Emergency Telephone System Board pursuant to this Section. The manner of appointment of such a joint board shall be prescribed in the agreement. (b) The powers and duties of the board shall be defined by ordinance of the municipality or county, or by intergovernmental agreement in the case of a joint board. The powers and duties shall include, but need not be limited to the following: (1) Planning a 9-1-1 system. (2) Coordinating and supervising the implementation, upgrading, or maintenance of the system, including the establishment of equipment specifications and coding systems. (3) Receiving monies from the surcharge imposed under Section 15.3, and from any other source, for deposit into the Emergency Telephone System Fund. (4) Authorizing all disbursements from the fund. (5) Hiring any staff necessary for the implementation or upgrade of the system. (c) All monies received by a board pursuant to a surcharge imposed under Section 15.3 shall be deposited into a separate interest-bearing Emergency Telephone System Fund account. The treasurer of the municipality or county that has established the board or, in the case of a joint board, any municipal or county treasurer designated in the intergovernmental agreement, shall be custodian of the fund. All interest accruing on the fund shall remain in the fund. No expenditures may be made from such fund except upon the direction of the board by resolution passed by a majority of all members of the board. Expenditures may be made only to pay for the costs associated with the following: (1) The design of the Emergency Telephone System. (2) The coding of an initial Master Street Address Guide data base, and update and maintenance thereof. (3) The repayment of any monies advanced for the implementation of the system. (4) The charges for Automatic Number Identification and Automatic Location Identification equipment, a computer aided dispatch system that records, maintains, and integrates information, mobile data transmitters equipped with automatic vehicle locators, and maintenance, replacement and update thereof to increase operational efficiency and improve the provision of emergency services. (5) The non-recurring charges related to installation of the Emergency Telephone System and the ongoing network charges. (6) The acquisition and installation, or the reimbursement of costs therefor to other governmental bodies that have incurred those costs, of road or street signs that are essential to the implementation of the emergency telephone system and that are not duplicative of signs that are the responsibility of the jurisdiction charged with maintaining road and street signs. (7) Other products and services necessary for the implementation, upgrade, and maintenance of the system and any other purpose related to the operation of the system, including costs attributable directly to the construction, leasing, or maintenance of any buildings or facilities or costs of personnel attributable directly to the operation of the system. Costs attributable directly to the operation of an emergency telephone system do not include the costs of public safety agency personnel who are and equipment that is dispatched in response to an emergency call. (d) The board shall complete the data base before implementation of the 9-1-1 system. The error ratio of the data base shall not at any time exceed 1% of the total data base. (Source: P.A. 89-568, eff. 1-1-97; 90-698, eff. 8-7-98.) Sec. 15.5. Private residential switch service 9-1-1 service. (a) After June 30, 1995, an entity that provides or operates private residential switch service and provides telecommunications facilities or services to residents shall provide to those residential end users the same level of 9-1-1 service as the public agency and the telecommunications carrier are providing to other residential end users of the local 9-1-1 system. This service shall include, but not be limited to, the capability to identify the telephone number, extension number, and the physical location that is the source of the call to the number designated as the emergency telephone number. (b) The private residential switch operator is responsible for forwarding end user automatic location identification record information to the 9-1-1 system provider according to the format, frequency, and procedures established by that system provider. (c) This Act does not apply to any PBX telephone extension that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical signals directly between the telephone extension and the serving PBX. (d) An entity that violates this Section is guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000 and not more than $5,000. (e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to preclude the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission or on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person, from seeking judicial relief, by mandamus, injunction, or otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section. (Source: P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94; 89-222, eff. 1-1-96; 89-497, eff. 6-27-96.) (Text of Section from P.A. 90-819) Sec. 15.6. Private business switch service 9-1-1 service. (a) After June 30, 1996, an entity that installs or operates a new private business switch service or replaces an existing private business switch service and provides telecommunications facilities or services to businesses shall provide to those business end users the same level of 9-1-1 service as the public agency and the telecommunications carrier are providing to other business end users of the local 9-1-1 system. This service shall include, but not be limited to, the capability to identify the telephone number, extension number, and the physical location that is the source of the call to the number designated as the emergency telephone number. After June 30, 2000, all entities providing or operating a private business switch service shall be in compliance with this Section. (b) The private business switch operator is responsible for forwarding end user automatic location identification record information to the 9-1-1 system provider according to the format, frequency, and procedures established by that system provider. (c) This Act does not apply to any PBX telephone extension that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical signals directly between the telephone extension and the serving PBX. (d) An entity that violates this Section is guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000 and not more than $5,000. (e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to preclude the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission or on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person, from seeking judicial relief, by mandamus, injunction, or otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section. (Source: P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94; 89-222, eff. 1-1-96; 89-497, eff. 6-27-96; 90-819, eff. 3-23-99.) (Text of Section from P.A. 91-518) Sec. 15.6. Enhanced 9-1-1 service; business service. (a) After June 30, 2000, or within 18 months after enhanced 9-1-1 service becomes available, any entity that installs or operates a private business switch service and provides telecommunications facilities or services to businesses shall assure that the system is connected to the public switched network in a manner that calls to 9-1-1 result in automatic number and location identification. For buildings having their own street address and containing workspace of 40,000 square feet or less, location identification shall include the building's street address. For buildings having their own street address and containing workspace of more than 40,000 square feet, location identification shall include the building's street address and one distinct location identification per 40,000 square feet of workspace. Separate buildings containing workspace of 40,000 square feet or less having a common public street address shall have a distinct location identification for each building in addition to the street address. (b) Exemptions. Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square feet are exempt from the multiple location identification requirements of subsection (a) if the building maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of signaling and responding to emergencies. Those means shall include, but not be limited to, a telephone system that provides the physical location of 9-1-1 calls coming from within the building. Health care facilities are presumed to meet the requirements of this paragraph if the facilities are staffed with medical or nursing personnel 24 hours per day and if an alternative means of providing information about the source of an emergency call exists. Buildings under this exemption must provide 9-1-1 service that provides the building's street address. Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square feet are exempt from subsection (a) if the building maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of signaling and responding to emergencies, including a telephone system that provides the location of a 9-1-1 call coming from within the building, and the building is serviced by its own medical, fire and security personnel. Buildings under this exemption are subject to emergency phone system certification by the Illinois Commerce Commission. Buildings in communities not serviced by enhanced 9-1-1 service are exempt from subsection (a). (c) This Act does not apply to any PBX telephone extension that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical signals directly between the telephone extension and the serving PBX. (d) An entity that violates this Section is guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000 and not more than $5,000. (e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to preclude the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission or on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person, from seeking judicial relief, by mandamus, injunction, or otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section. (f) The Commission shall promulgate rules for the administration of this Section no later than January 1, 2000. (Source: P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94; 89-222, eff. 1-1-96; 89-497, eff. 6-27-96; 91-518, eff. 8-13-99.) Sec. 16. This Act takes effect July 1, 1975. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.) -- Social Engineering: Government Emergency Telephone Systems biggest flaw is not in its physical or watts Band 6 network infrastructure, but the fact that all live operators who administrate the GETS system more often than not allow themselves to be tricked by unauthorized NON-government employees. Because all calls that route through the GETS system are thought of as high-priority, operators who are called up won't usually think twice about giving the person on the other end of the line a high-priority account. High-priority accounts allow anyone to call any number in most of Canada / USA for free. Phone numbers that would normally give you a busy-signal, or an "all circuits busy" recording, will allow you to do an Emergency Interrupt with a GETS account - thus allowing you to break into the conversation between the called party and the third person on the line. Scenario between unauthorized person and GETS operator; Operator: "Operator services, how may I help you?" John Bashcoff: "Yes, hello this is John Bashcoff with the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs. I'm in Edmonton right now, and I seem to have misplaced my GETS pin number. This is an emergency, can you please supply me with a PIN?" Operator: "Yes of course Mr.Bashcoff. The pin number is [12 digit number]." John Bashcoff: "Thank You." Operator: "You're welcome." -- CALL ENDS -- Unauthorized caller proceeds to call back the GETS system, and immediately he enters the 12 digit pin he was supplied with. Tada... outdial access anywhere he wants for free. His caller identification information shows 'Long Distance, 710-627-4387'. FYI; The area code '710' is a private area code owned by the US Government. 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