Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: riddle@hoss.unl.edu (Michael H. Riddle) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Sports Stadium Use of a "Dedicated" Phone Message-ID: <13822@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 19 Oct 90 11:33:44 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: University of Nebraska, Computing Resource Center Lines: 42 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 747, Message 1 of 7 In <13758@accuvax.nwu.edu> Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) writes: >Would it be possible for a baseball dugout to have phones connecting >only to, say, the bullpen? (That is, take the phone off the hook and >it automatically rings that other location, such as you might see in >an airport for a car-rental company.) >[Moderator's Note: Yes, it would be possible. I see a lot of ring-down >lines in offices ... But a ring-down line, like an >FX line, is an overkill unless you keep it loaded at all times and can >justify the savings over DDD, which is hard these days. From a dugout >to a bullpen would be such an overkill when the already-in-place PBX >connects them anyway with three digit dialing, no? PAT] Isn't there an "in-between" alternative, where the instrument appears to be dedicated ring-down service, but in reality places the call when the customer goes off-hook? I remember this in the Autovon world of several years ago. The call went out with a preprogrammed precedence levl high enough to guarantee success in well over 90% of the situations, yet avoided tying up the circuits during the idle time. The advantage to the user was that, in the heat of the momenet, there was no need to misdial any numbers. What I'm not sure about is whether such a service is tariffed anywhere today, or why one wouldn't use a "smart phone" to dial on its own. Particularly if the stadium had a reasonably modern PBX with an executive override function, there would be no problem with busy signals. Any comments? riddle@hoss.unl.edu riddle@crchpux.unl.edu mike.riddle@f27.n285.z1.fidonet.org Sysop on 1:285/27 @ Fidonet [Moderator's Note: Bell used to offer something called a 'one number dialer' which was a phone without a dial on the front of it, and a special box on the wall where the phone plugged in. The box had something in it which when the phone went off hook would dial the desired number as programmed in the box. PAT]