Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 05 May 91 22:55:55 EDT From: Tony Harminc Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Introducing Call Management Service in Montreal Area Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 336, Message 6 of 11 Lines: 46 Jamie Mason wrote: > 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? CMS was introduced in Montreal and Toronto on the same date. Ottawa/Hull and Quebec were the first (1990). Bell has published a rough schedule for the major urban centres in its operating area. There will be plenty of local publicity when it arrives - why get excited about the exact date ? > 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 above mentioned are it for now in Bell Canada's area. There are quite a few in the US now. I'd be interested to hear about Caller*ID outside the (technologically nearly-identical) US/Canada systems. I have seen references to it in the UK - can a reader there fill us in ? >> 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? Because Signaling System # 7 (CCS7) is not available in the entire long distance network yet. Also, it is not clear whether Bell will have to re-apply to the CRTC for permission to offer Call Display for long distance calls. I'm sure they think they don't, but someone (me? :-)) will almost certainly try to force them to. > 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? Perhaps the rest of us who read about it thought it was too long, boring, and familiar to send to the Digest :-) Tony Harminc