Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Unequal Service Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 89 03:53:04 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 27 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 475, message 8 of 8 In article , westmark!dave@uunet.uu. net (Dave Levenson) writes: > The schedule for a given central office may be pushed one way or another > by the demands of the major business subscribers in its serving area; > the over-all schedule is probably pretty well cast in stone by the > telco _and_ the regulators. Ah-hah! That explains a lot. Up until recently, we had the "big four" crossbar offices: ALpine, serving Cupertino, west San Jose, and Campbell; ANdrews, serving Willow Glen and upper Almaden; CLayburn, serving the east side and foothills; and AXminster, serving a small part of San Jose and southeast Santa Clara. ALpine just went DMS. And guess which famous computer company has its think-tank and corporate offices in Cupertino. As someone said, some customers are more equal than others. All those other areas mentioned above are bedroom districts. Where I live in Willow Glen, the highest tech business you are likely to find is a grocery store. Our crossbar should be replaced around 2015, if we're fortunate. Those other areas are the same way: nothing but houses and shopping centers. I suppose crossbar is here to stay in San Jose! John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !