Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!lll-winken!telecom-request From: john@mojave.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Pac*Bell Trivia Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 06:43:09 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 22 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 483, Message 8 of 11 Those of you who have been reading the Digest over the past few months are well aware of my ten lines that have individual drops, making the back of my house look like Slum Alley. Some interesting developments: I ordered five more residential lines (in hunting). The rep did not even ask what they were to be used for. I specified a due date of 6/28, to coincide with my return from a desert trip. Already I have been informed by the person watching my house that a Pac*Bell installation supervisor has made a pre-field visit. He indicated that it was his intention to replace the single drops and install a pair of 12-pair cables. He has scheduled a full day to work on the project. BTW, wanna know what the assigned lead number is (that was given to me without asking and hence there will be no "vanity charges")? 266-4400! Not bad for an "out of the box" number, eh? And all of this in spite of the way I treat Pac*Bell in the Digest. Just goes to show the right hand must not know what the left hand does! John Higdon (hiding out in the desert)