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From: rfarris@serene.UUCP (Rick Farris)
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Subject: How Do I Rotary?
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Date: 3 Dec 89 04:20:38 GMT
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Pac*Tel offers a "rotary ring-down" service, wherein, for incoming
calls, if one of a group of numbers is busy, the next number in
sequence will automatically be selected.

The charge for this service is a one-time fee of $40 per number
affected, and then $0.50 per month per line.

It seems to me that this service would have to be provided at the CO;
I don't see how it could be provided at the customer site.  Am I
correct in this?

At some point, of course, it seems that you could bring in a wide-band
trunk, and then do the rotarizing at your end.  At $40/line, how many
lines would you need to make this cost effective?

I realize I don't know what I'm talking about; that's why I've come
here, for info -- hopefully not flames.  :-)


Rick Farris   RF Engineering  POB M  Del Mar, CA  92014   voice (619) 259-6793
rfarris@serene.uu.net      ...!uunet!serene!rfarris       serene.UUCP 259-7757

[Moderator's Note: That seems to be an awful rip-off price to me!
Illinois Bell has always offered hunt and jump-hunt (out of sequence
but reaonably close together lines) for *free*. You could always get
it wired so your first line hunted the second, then the third.....ninth, 
fifteenth, etc... Does Pac*Bell understand what you are asking for?
In some exchanges, the numbers had to be in sequence, ascending, but
in others, any reasonable ascending order was okay, but there was never
any charge for it. Circular hunt in an ESS office has a small charge.  PT]