Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 2 Jun 91 15:48:31 PDT From: "Ole J. Jacobsen" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: PacBell Does Something Right 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 420, Message 7 of 10 Lines: 26 You're lucky. I had to really work hard to convince the installers that they should rip out several generations of interface boxes and clean it all up with a six-line box for me and a two-line box for the guy downstairs (we share a garage in which the boxes are located). The installers told me that while it is in the company's interest to introduce the new telephone network interface boxes as much as possible, it is *not* in the installers' interest, as the nifty new boxes reduce service calls for which these guys get paid. One bad thing that they did do and I did not discover until after they were done: In order to get all my lines installed they had to pull out the existing five-pair underground cable and replace it with two five-pair cables (or so I thought). Since the conduit was so tight (it took them five hours to pull the 60 feet or so to the nearest pole) they "cheated" and intstalled a three-pair plus a five-pair. I have six lines, the other guy has two. 3 + 5 = 8 and 6 + 2 = 8, so now there is no room for expansion! Ole J Jacobsen, Editor & Publisher ConneXions--The Interoperability Report Interop, Inc., 480 San Antonio Road, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA 94040, Phone: (415) 941-3399 FAX: (415) 949-1779 Email: ole@csli.stanford.edu Direct: (415) 962-2515