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From: steves@tektools.tek.COM (steve shellans)
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Subject: Submission for comp-dcom-telecom
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Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 16:39:48 EDT
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From: steves@tektools.TEK.COM (steve shellans)
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Subject: obsolete central office switches
Keywords: obsolete central office switch
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Date: 30 Apr 87 20:39:46 GMT
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In my home I have a touchtone phone.  When I press a number, such as
7, for example, I hear 7 clicks coming back at me.  Even though
I can dial a complete number, including area code in a couple of
seconds, the wait after that while I listen to the entire 'readback'
is very annoying.  (The number I dial most often is 790-0000, which
is the local number for Allnet -- it seems to take forever.)

From phones at work there is none of this, and all (outside) calls
go through very quickly.  Whenever I travel on business and need
to make calls, I always find electronic switching.

My question is this  --  how unusual (in the U.S.) is the kind of
switching that I have from my home phone.  If this is something
pretty rare, I would like to contact my phone company (GTE) and
the state utilities regulator to bring some pressure to bear to
update the equipment into the modern world.

Also, does anyone know when the heyday of this kind of equipment was?

Thanks much,

Steve Shellans
Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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