Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 9 Jun 91 06:15:19 GMT From: Jim Gottlieb Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How do You Deal With Central Office Problems? Reply-To: Jim Gottlieb Message-ID: Organization: Info Connections, West Los Angeles 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 442, Message 4 of 5 Lines: 30 In article TERRY@spcvxa.bitnet (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr) writes: > For over a year (from the day the exchange was activated), the > 201-915 1A ESS had garbled messages. For example, dialing an invalid > number would give a very noisy recording: > "Your call cannot be comas in the system." > I suppose they are reluctant to fix it because there's no revenue > loss in a bad recording. Still, you'd think they'd pay some attention > to it. One thing I have always admired about the Japanese is their attention to detail. And I think of this every time I hear some garbled telco recording here in the U.S. Because never once have I heard one in Japan. In fact, some of their telco recordings sound absolutely wonderful. Give a call to +81 3 5275 0000. Every time I hear this recording, I'm just blown away. Compare it to _our_ typical disconnect recording. This recording, by the way, comes from KDD, the international carrier, after doing an SS7 lookup to the telco (NTT) and discovering the number is not in service. It is in English and Japanese. I'd be curious to know if it is given in different languages depending on what country it is being dialed from (maybe in German and Japanese when dialed from Germany?).