Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!xanth!ginosko!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: optilink!cramer@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Phone Service In a Remote Part of Alaska Message-ID: Date: 7 Aug 89 18:14:32 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 28 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 280, message 6 of 7 In article , morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) writes: # In the late 60' or early 70's I visited Fort Benton a few times. I remember # that the telephone system was SxS, and located in the back of someone's barn, # and owned by the Tri County Telephone Assoc. It was either a 3 or 4 digit # system and could be dialed from the outside world. Inside the town you # dialed 4 digits, I seem to remember the first was always "3". It was 1+ # for anything outside the town, even the operator was 1+0 because she was # in the next town down. Information was 1+411 and came from Great Falls. # I was told later that repair was 3611 and was an answering machine. # I have no idea what is current in Fort Benton - I was last there in 1972. # Mike Morris You want unique phone companies? I've got one for you. When I worked for Harris Digital Telephone Systems in the early 1980s, we had a customer in Alaska who used a pair of our D1200 switches to provide local phone service 18 hours/day -- at the end of the day, he would power down, and everyone went without service during the night. To a city boy like me, this was a real shocker -- phone service from someone's basement. -- Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer A pacifist who calls the police isn't one; hired violence is still violence. Disclaimer? You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!