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From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: phone line specs
Message-ID: <5831@ensingk>
Date: 21 Dec 90 14:22:06 GMT
References: <5510@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> <JON_SREE.90Dec20113910@world.std.com>
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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>The 'official' specs are maintained by Bellcore. You'll want section 6
>(and possibly others) of the LSSGR 

The official spec's in North America are maintained by ANSI. BellCore
has input to these spec's but so does the rest of the industry.
Whole sections of the US are supplied with telephone service
which follows the REA spec and not the LSSGR. The LSSGR also
does not specify customer premises equipment.

The days of the AT&T monopoly are over