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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
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Subject: Re: State Rejects US West Bid for Caller ID
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In article <9703@accuvax.nwu.edu> Randal Schwartz <merlyn@iwarp.
intel.com> writes:

> A spokeswoman for US West acknowledged the contract rejection by the
> commission includes the capability to view and store incoming phone
> numbers.  But she said the feature is incidental to the [ISDN package].

> (Washington State) Assistant Attorney General Charles Adams said it
> appeared US West was trying to sneak the issue past the public.

I doubt it ... they probably didn't even consider that ISDN included
the equivalent of Caller-ID. The contract rejection was probably as
big a shock to them as to the PUC.


Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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