Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!telecom From: telecom@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.telecom Subject: TELECOM Digest V4 #198 Message-ID: <8000@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 17:52:22 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8000 Posted: Mon Jun 10 17:52:22 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Jun-85 05:01:56 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 56 From: Jon Solomon (the Moderator) TELECOM Digest Mon, 10 Jun 85 15:48:33 EDT Volume 4 : Issue 198 Today's Topics: Pacific Bell (unlocked B-boxes) Who handles card calls? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 15:51:21 PDT From: vortex!lauren@rand-unix (Lauren Weinstein) Subject: Pacific Bell (unlocked B-boxes) To: TELECOM@MC.ARPA One thing I've noticed PacBell doing lately that really irks me is leaving B-boxes (local loop distribution boxes) unlocked! More and more I'm seeing the new style (wide and low) boxes which are bolted closed but without a lock in the hasp. I don't much care for the concept that any jerk with the right wrench could come along and fiddle around in there. I saw one in Hollywood that wasn't even bolted closed--it was sitting there with one door swung open and no telco people in the vicinity. How about some security on the outside plant, Pacific? --Lauren-- ------------------------------ Date: 10 Jun 85 12:39:30 EDT From: *Hobbit* Subject: Who handles card calls? To: telecom@RUTGERS.ARPA It's been my experience that when I call very locally using my card, I go through an awful lot of switching to get there. I'm talking tandems. Sometimes I'm lucky enough to get a non-CCIS one, and hear all the MF routing. I suspect that what's happening is that the call is passed to some AT&T office that would handle inter-LATA calls, which gives me the MCCS tone and accepts the card number, and then routes the call back into the LATA for completion. Now, if the AT&T switch, the destination, and I all happen to be in the same LATA, and AT&T completes the call, is this in violation of something because AT&T is completing an intra-LATA call??? _H* ------- ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest ******************************