Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: David Lewis Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: "Intercom Plus" by Pacific Bell Message-ID: <1803@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 4 Dec 89 18:36:15 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ Lines: 44 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 551, message 6 of 11 In article <1755@accuvax.nwu.edu>, john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) writes: > In article , apple!netcom!edg@ > ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) writes: > > Last month, my phone bill advertised a little service called Intercom > > Plus. Being the phone junkie I am, I called up the business office > > and ordered it right up. > Leave it to Pac*Bell to sell its ringback codes to the public and then > have to gall to refer to it as "advanced" service. > How long is Pac*Bell going to sell bits and pieces of Centrex service > to the residential and small business public while avoiding the > necessary upgrades to offer really state-of-the-art telephone service? As long as necessary to fully depreciate their 1AESSs. Pac*Bell has a whole pile of 1As; the 1A feature book is about 4 pages thick; Pac*Bell is not allowed by the CPUC to writedown their 1As for several years yet; it doesn't take a genius to figure out their best move... Seriously, have you seen a thing called the "Intelligent Network Task Force Report"? Their definition of "Intelligent Network" is about 10 times the size of my definition, but it's interesting -- the definition of what's needed for "really state-of-the-art telephone service." I won't go into it (it's a fairly long piece of work), but copies should be available -- it's a public document. However, the only address I have for Pac*Bell documentation is: Pacific Bell Information Exchange 2600 Camino Ramon, Room 1S450 San Ramon, CA 94583 (415) 823-0222 (I got my copy at the 1989 IN ComForum in Chicago.) David G Lewis ...!bellcore!nvuxr!deej (@ Bellcore Navesink Research & Engineering Center) "If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower."