Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: watcher Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Equal Access on College Campus? Message-ID: <12477@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Sep 90 00:38:05 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Northern Star Communications, Ltd. Lines: 31 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 670, Message 4 of 9 Here at Notre Dame (I don't go to school here, just visit), all the telephone service in dormitories is handled by CTI (meaning CTI-installed switches and CTI-provided 1+ long distance). Apparently students can't get AT&T (or other) long distance provided via 1+; they have to place operator-assisted calls (and pay rates for same). Is this strictly legal? I haven't checked to see whether 10XXX dialing is permitted, but I would gather that it is not, given the state of affairs. Can anything be done about this, considering that it is indeed a campus, and as such the facilities are either privately owned or in some other sort of legal grey area which exempts them from having to provide Equal Access? James Watcher (yes, that's what it says on my driver's license!) nstar!watcher@ndmath.math.nd.edu (fast) PO Box 875 Notre Dame, IN 46556 (slow) [Moderator's Note: Not long ago a thread here in the Digest discussed blocking of 10xxx from privately owned switches. I maintained it was not legal to block access (after all, the court order called for it to work that way), and a couple special issues of the Digest were devoted to rebuttals from folks saying they should have the right to run their switches the way they wanted. That's where it seems to stand at this point. A university would seem to be a re-seller of long distance service (except for its own administrative calls) and probably would be in a different category than a business in which all the long distance calls placed were presumably administrative, or business related. PAT]