Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T as a "Backup" For US Sprint et al Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 89 23:29:09 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 20 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 455, message 5 of 11 In article , myerston@cts.sri.com writes: ... > Such outages are usually reported as "SPRINT fiber cut, AT&T > circuits overloaded" as if each were equally to blame!. The fact that > the OCCs routinely use AT&T facilities to complete calls to remote > locations is equally unknown to press and public. When an excavation project severed a fiber optic link here in New Jersey last year, the AT&T customers noticed a huge increase in circuits-busy conditions. The AT&T network managed to complete a few calls, but the blocking probabilty went way up. MCI customers, on the other hand, were unaware of the outage, and experienced normal circuit availability. Dave Levenson Voice: (201) 647 0900 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave