Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Touchtone Fee Abolished in CA Message-ID: <9531@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 9 Jul 90 04:27:33 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 36 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 470, Message 3 of 10 plouff@kali.enet.dec.com writes: > 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. Moo, moo, moo! Come to California some time if you want backwater. Come to California if you want arteriosclerotic (or just plain silly) regulation. F'rinstance -- I just talked to one of my major upstairs Pac*Bell contacts. He says that CLASS will hopefully become available second quarter 1991. He says that hardware is in place, but that there is still nothing resembling a tariff. So much for regulation. Now for backwater. Pac*Bell is still saddled with major amounts of crossbar (mostly in northern CA). In order to continue to use this junk, they were forced several years ago to install the NAC CONTAC to the switches which mainly enables FGD. Wonderful, you say. However, there were side effects. Unadorned crossbar has no trouble counting pulse dialing at 20 pps. CONTAC must see 9-12 pps. Outside of this window is not permitted. Also, Pac*Bell has just decided that post-dial delay resulting from the CONTAC operation may be too long. What an understatement. For a DDD call to LA using AT&T it take three seconds to connect on my ESS and ten seconds on my crossbar line. That's more than 300% longer! BTW, there are eight prefixes of crossbar left in my CO alone! (Crossbar for all of you outside of tel-hell [CA] is that electro-mechanical stuff you read about in books that now have yellow pages.) Now what was that about backwater? John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !