Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: wolves.uucp!ggw@duke.cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: CLASS Services in Central NC Message-ID: <2103@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Dec 89 03:57:35 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: "Gregory G. Woodbury" Organization: Wolves Den UNIX BBS Lines: 37 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 569, message 8 of 10 Just a quick report to the Telecom Digest concerning CLASS services in the Central NC area. Southern Bell (part of BellSouth) in central NC (specifically Raleigh area LATA) is offering CLASS services without CNID. The NC PUC has the CNID service held up in red tape while ACLU and other "intervenors" complain about privacy etc. Last # redial, last caller autodial and "wardialer" services (as well as call trace) are being heavily advertised on local TV. The GTE satrapy in Durham is finally advertising that they have the disable call waiting service in place, but it is not generally enabled in the switches - you have to specifically order it. Both phone companies are still charging for DMTF services. GTE disables DMTF by reversing polarity on the line at the switch frame. (i.e. you can remove "Touch Tone" from your line charges, and in about a week your modem and DMTF phones will generally stop working - but a check with a polarity reader (the led on a stick) will indicate that the polarity is "reversed" -- I know I wired it right when I redid my parent's place a couple of years ago ;-) GTE spokespersons said that CLASS services will become available in Durham in about 6 months or whenever the PUC finally decides the issue of CNID. An inquiry about the difficulty of re-programming the CO switches was met with a snide remark and a statment that the phone switch software is the most recent available from the manufacturer. Private information is that Durham is all NT DMS-10's and that the NT/BNR complex in RTP is working on it as fast as possible. Gregory G. Woodbury Sysop/owner Wolves Den UNIX BBS, Durham NC UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...dukeac!wolves!ggw [use the maps!] Domain: ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw@ac.duke.edu ggw%wolves@ac.duke.edu Phone: +1 919 493 1998 (Home) +1 919 684 6126 (Work) [The line eater is a boojum snark! ]