Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax.uwo.ca!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: CLASS Is Finally Coming to My Exchange Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 20:17:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 18 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 240, Message 7 of 11 I just got some dates from Pac*Bell. My CO (the last of the original Alexander Graham Bell prototypes) will be upgraded in September of this year, and CLASS will be available in October. This is the first time anyone has mentioned a time frame. I am told that this will be the first offering of CLASS in California. Contel will also begin offering CLASS features in Gilroy (a farming town 30 miles south of San Jose, which is an overgrown farming town) by the end of the year. Next year, it will offer these features in its High Desert areas. Of course, all of this will be after the big PUC public debates so what we finally get will be the Pasteurized and homogenized and highly diluted versions of Caller ID, etc. But at least it will be something. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !