Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!decwrl!hayes!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telebit vs. Sprint Message-ID: <8579@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 2 Jun 90 18:54:56 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 27 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 409, Message 10 of 14 Marc O'Krent writes: > Althought the > first ESS was also deployed in LA in 1965, it wasn't untill about 1977 > that custom calling was offered. At least that was the first year we > were able to offer it to customers - I was also a Pac Bell service > rep. --Excuse me, "Pacific Telephone.") That's odd. I remember the first Bay Area ESS cuts as being around the very early '70s. (I started noticing the "precise" ringback tone, and the funny way when someone answered, the RBT would stop almost a full second before there was the clunk of the audio path being completed.) Anyway, it was not more than a year before the first basic features were offered: three-way, forwarding, and call-waiting. Speed calling didn't become available until something like 1976, but there were definately the other features available years before that. This is extra odd, since it has been my experience that ALL technological improvements in Pac*Bell (or Pacific Telephone, depending on the era) come to the Southland years before anywhere else in the state, including the Bay Area. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !