Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 10 Jun 91 13:46:19 GMT From: Nick Sayer Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Pacific Bell Local Calling Area Expansion Message-ID: Organization: The Duck Pond, Stockton, CA 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 445, Message 6 of 12 Lines: 39 forrette@cory.berkeley.edu (Steve Forrette) writes: > The interesting part is that by the evening of Monday, June 3, the > (optional) 1 was again allowed. Calls would complete with or without > the 1. Further investgation revealed that ALL local calls would allow > the 1, even those that had never been toll. So, I can now dial ANY > number in 916 by using a preceeding 1. Toll calls still require it, > though. I just checked, and the same is now the case here in Stockton as well. I was under the impression that the BOCs operations in one LATA were supposed to be independant from the operations in other LATAs. If this is the case, why did the BOC here in Stockton suddenly get the same neat idea? If this is not the case, then Pac*Bell is a more evil threat to modern society than even I had imagined. I myself go a bit farther than Mr. Higdon. Why must Pac*Hell be the only phone company allowed to bring me dial tone? Granted, it would be expensive for a new phone company to come in and start from scratch, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be worth doing for them. Either there should be competing phone companies vying for my telecommunications dollar, or one BOC in each LATA whose job is to do nothing apart from providing local loops and dialtone for the least amount of money possible without drawing blood -- red ink. No Centrex, no Message Center, No 976, nothing. Perhaps even better would be a BOC whose job was ONLY the local loop (read: wire) management. Perhaps the dialtone and/or local calling could be broken open for competition too. Then each CO perhaps could be its own BOC. "Company Office" suddenly has new meaning. The CO could charge subscribers a nominal fee for each loop, and charge anyone who wanted to tie in a nominal fee for that. They would get from that enough money to maintain the wire plant and a small profit. Nick Sayer mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us N6QQQ 209-952-5347 (Telebit)