Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How Do I Rotary? Message-ID: <1782@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 3 Dec 89 23:31:53 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 41 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 550, message 6 of 12 In article <1765@accuvax.nwu.edu>, rfarris@serene.UUCP (Rick Farris) writes: > 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. > [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*. I've never heard it called "rotary ring-down", but hunting costs an arm and a leg with Pac*Bell (like everything else). It costs $20.00 per line to make any change in hunting e.g. install, remove, number change, etc. For instance, if I have two lines (as I do for my UUCP modems) and I want the lead number to "hunt" to the second number, then I pay $40.00 extra ($20.00 per line) to install over and above any other charges and $1.00 per month ($0.50 per line). It would cost $40.00 to have the hunting removed as well (@ $20.00 per line). I did, however, circumvent that. With busy-forwarding, you pay $5.00 to put it in (on the first line, which when busy "forwards" to the second) and $2.00 per month. An advantage is that the two numbers have different prefixes and they won't install normal hunting to do that, even if served by the same switch. It will take 35 months before the extra dollar a month catches up with me, and there is no termination charge if and when it is removed. > 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] Since much of Pac*Bell is electromechanical, jump options are generally not available. In crossbar, it takes an auxiliary relay panel to allow subscriber lines to jump from one "level" to another. These panels are generally out of stock, so the customer is generally out of luck. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !