Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 415 0+ Dialing Message-ID: <10199@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 27 Jul 90 05:19:14 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 35 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 523, Message 7 of 10 Isaac Rabinovitch writes: > I dunno. A few years ago, some GTE employees crashed the > newly-installed digital switch (I'm sure that's not the right telecom > jargon, but you know what I mean) in Los Gatos. I believe there was > *no* phone service in the entire town for over a day! Lucky there wer > no fires or anything! In all fairness, it was the 1EAX that preceeded the GTD-5 that caused the Los Gatos town council to resolve that the town no longer desired to have GTE as the local operating company. There are three COs in Los Gatos: Town Center (Montebello), Northeast (Vasona), and Mountain. Town Center was the first to convert from SXS and did so with the 1EAX. (NE and Mountain converted directly to GTD-5 somewhat later.) As you might guess, Town Center serves Town Hall, the police, the fire dept., and all of the quaint touristy businesses near town square. After the town resolution, many rumors sprang up about the possibility of Pacific Telesis buying up the GTE system. There were even dates mentioned. We just KNEW it was going to happen because all of the (then) local GTE people were so firm in their denials. This HAD to mean that something was afoot. Unfortunately, it never happened. Too bad because we missed a great opportunity to see how a real phone company would handle all that awful GTE junk. From the GTE glossary: reorder -- end-of-dialing signal John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !