Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!diemen.cc.utas.oz.au!kendall@uunet.uu.net (kendall) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Ringing SFCA From Australia Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 89 19:29:23 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: kendall@diemen.utas.oz.au (Jon D. Kendall) Organization: University of Tasmania Lines: 13 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 469, message 11 of 11 In reference to Dennis Brophy's article I must say that I find it amazing that telephone service to the SF Bay area continued as well as it did given the magnitude of the disaster. I rang friends in Los Altos Hills (between SF and San Jose) around 06:30 hrs. CA time with minimal effort. Granted it did take a few times to finally get past the 'OTC circuits busy to that area' message but I did get through. The Australian OTC connects to AT&T in America so, as far as AT&T's service is concerned, it was working very well for us. For that matter, I rang a friend earlier in Davis (916) at around 0:30 hrs. CA time Wednesday morning who could not ring anybody on MCI because the MCI access was out. Is this because MCI's access comes from the Bay Area?