Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!pollux!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Unequal Service Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 89 01:01:13 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: very little Lines: 17 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 473, message 5 of 10 John Higdon proposes that customers served by crossbar COs be charged less than those served by digital offices. Actually, it costs MORE to maintain a crossbar switch. In many cases the telco would love to scrap out the old switch, but the PUC claims that it still has years of service left and is not ready to be written off. In Washington State, US West shocked me and a lot of other folks by scrapping ALL of their electomechanical switches, even in the tiniest of communities. Some Northern Telecom salesman showed them how even with the big up front cost, they could save so much on maintainence and get so much more revenue from new services that there was a very quick payback. Tad Cook tad@ssc.UUCP