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From: Gordon Burditt <sneaky!gordon@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: A Small Simple Question
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Date: 6 Apr 90 07:28:21 GMT
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>One thought though, if this is for a school project, there's really no
>need to attach it to the phone lines.  You could attach it to the
>phone system in your school -- It may be easier to get permission to
>do this.  ...

This brings up another question: what happens to (a) the FCC type
registration requirement and (b) the requirement to notify the phone
company about attached equipment when the phone line in question is an
extension of a key system/PBX?  Presumably you told them about the
stuff directly attached (the key system) already.  What about new
extensions? I'm thinking of something like the KX-T61610 but if the
type matters, what about any type?

The phone company doesn't seem to care much about what's attached to
the line.  If you try to follow the directions in the instruction book
of your new phone/modem/fax machine/answering machine to tell the
phone company the FCC registration number of what you're connecting to
the line, the phone company (Southwestern Bell in this case) usually
says something like "we don't lease those", "talk to the company you
bought it from", and "it's not covered since you don't have Inside
Wire Maintenance", indicating they don't have the faintest idea what
I'm talking about.

This from the same customer service people who told me I'd have to
SCRAP every phone I had when I ordered another line, because if more
than one line goes to the same residence, only multi-line phones will
function.  Another one tried to convince me that someone else talking
on my line (over dial tone, very intelligible, and not someone in my
house) was a problem in my inside wiring, even while she was having
trouble hearing me over the other person.  (The repairman said there
was foreign battery on the line, and called back later saying a
problem had been found in the cable a few blocks away.  No problem
since.  I take that to mean one side of my line was connected to one
side of someone else's through rainwater and bad insulation.)


		Gordon L. Burditt
		sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon