Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 5 May 1991 09:27:23 -0400 From: Jamie Mason Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Introducing Call Management Service in Montreal Area Message-ID: Organization: University of Toronto Computer Science Undergraduate Student Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 330, Message 5 of 9 Lines: 49 In article clamen+@cs.cmu.edu quotes: > The MONTREAL AREA is one of the first to be offered Call > Management Service (CMS) from Toronto has had it since April 22. I think Ottawa has had it for a while now. Why don't they just say Montreal is the Nth area to be offered CMS, subsituting the correct, but impressively low, N? Does anyone have a list of cites which have a full scale Caller-ID system in place, or to be in place REAL soon? > The service is gradually being extended to include long distance calls. Since at least two other Canadain cities have CMS, why does Bell Canada not extend it to long distance NOW? > If you live in the Montreal local calling area, order today by calling > 279-8636. This quote almost exactly matched a pamphlet Bell Canada sent to Toronto customers with their phone bill. It was sent three months ago, announcing the service and inviting questions/orders. The Toronto number is (416) 585-2500. Does anyone know the date when these services will go on-line in Montreal? I would love to have seen the French ad for CMS. French ads are almost always more original and amusing than the equivalent English ones, except the ads which are direct translations of the English. I am surprised that this message had to wait until someone at NWU read the Gazette. Don't we have any Telcom readers in Montreal? I have been asked by several Telcom readers to post my experiences with CMS to the Newsgroup, since the Caller-ID discussion has a low fact:speculation ratio. Maybe some Montreal readers would be interested to see what is coming their way? I will post the article as soon as I have finished composing it. It is somewhat long. I am glad to see CMS expanding so rapildly. I think that, despite itself, Bell Canada is doing the Right Thing with CMS ... or at least a close approximation of the Right Thing, for a sufficiently liberal "close". Jamie