Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!anthony@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Lee) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Starline Service From Illinois Bell Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 89 15:27:14 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Computer Science Department, The University of Queensland, 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 388, message 6 of 8 Hi Patrick, Thank you for your interesting article on Starline. I've noticed you said many of the services had already been available and that Starline only enhanced them. As I said before here in Australia we are only starting to have the original services. One thing I do notice is that as the number of services that are available to the customer increases and as more of them becomes active then this business of having to press *nn (nn two digit number) or #nn becomes a real mess. Why can't your telco give you a more sophisicated handset ? I suppose there's no point unless you have ISDN signalling. Even with DFTM, there'll needed to be a lot of logic built into a handset just to display useful info to the user. I just wonder if the interface between the user and the CO is more intelligent, how much of this service interactions stuff can be gloss over ? You see I am really interested in the interactions between enhanced features. I didn't get a chance to read your ISDN summary but do you remember if there was any mention of the use of ISDN signalling to enhance the way enhanced services are delivered to the customer. The topic in itself is worth discussing. May be you can post this message on comp.dcom.telecom and see if there anyone out there who would be interested. BTW I recently got a message from someone in Bellcore and she called me the Down Under-er. I think that's sounds good consider there aren't too many Down Under readers in this newsgroup. Cheers, Anthony Anthony Lee (Humble PhD student) (alias Doctor(Time Lord)) ACSnet: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz TEL:(+617) 3712651 Internet: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (+617) 3774139 (w) SNAIL: 243 Carmody Rd, St Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia