Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: jimmy@icjapan.uucp (Jim Gottlieb) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Where Are We Going From Here? Message-ID: Date: 14 Sep 89 10:06:23 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Jim Gottlieb Organization: Info Connections/VMJ, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan Lines: 34 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 377, message 7 of 9 In article bmk@cbnews.ATT.COM (bernard.mckeever,54236,mv,3b045,508 960 6289) writes: >25 years ago, who would have thought that the network would evolve to what it >is today. At that time digital transmission facilities were just being >introduced. That sounds like the current state of affairs here in Japan. We asked for some phone lines to be brought in digitally, but they have never heard of such a thing. We also have some lines coming from a distant CO, and they actually run them analog all the way from the home CO to us. This is probably 15 to 20 kilometers and the lines sound like it. Sometimes, when the lines ring, you pick up the phone and just keep hearing ring voltage in your ear and can not seize the line. The sound level is way low of course. There was an article in the Nihon Keizai Sinbun on 09/12 talking about this very subject. It was comparing all the wonderful features available in the U.S. to the dearth of services here. It also mentioned that no volume discounts are available here, even on the new toll-free 0120 service. We are also running into the problem that most buildings have very few available pairs from the CO. Most of the office buildings we have looked at renting space in have less than twenty pairs available. NTT (the phone company) says they will install any additional cable for free, but will require six months to one year for completion. This means that we would have to pay for up to one year's rent for space that we could not occupy. Jim Gottlieb (remote from Tokyo) _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ or or Fax: 011-81-3-239-7453 Voice Mail: 011-81-3-944-6221 ID#82-42-424