Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: plouff@kali.enet.dec.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Touchtone Fee Abolished in CA Message-ID: <9487@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 4 Jul 90 16:58:11 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 38 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 469, Message 1 of 15 In article <9364@accuvax.nwu.edu>, john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) writes... >Isaac Rabinovitch writes: >> It is true that if they just passed the extra cost of call waiting, >But what IS this extra cost? You can't get a generic for any switch >today that doesn't have the usual custom calling features built in. ...and... >Heath Roberts writes: >> This isn't quite true. Telephone companies have to pay quite a bit for >> the software (and sometimes hardware) to provide these advanced >> features. >Call waiting, call forwarding, and three-way calling are not, repeat >not advanced features. They have been part and parcel of stock >generics for over twenty years. Try to buy a switch without them. Historical questions: when was the last date that AT&T sold switching equipment _without_ 100 percent tone dialing coverage? Competitors? When was the last date AT&T sold switches without at least some "custom calling" features as standard? Competitors? References such as magazine articles would be most appreciated. This is a relevant question for those of us who live with backwater telephone service from NYNEX, as well as arteriosclerotic regulation by the Mass. PUC. Wes Plouff, Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard, Mass. plouff%kali.enet.dec@decwrl.dec.com Networking bibliography: _Islands in the Net_, by Bruce Sterling _The Matrix_, by John S. Quarterman