Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!netsys!vector!nobody From: encore!cloud9!dts.UUCP@seismo.css.gov (Daniel Senie) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Residential Hunting Message-ID: Date: 5 Oct 88 03:45:21 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 153, message 6 X-Submissions-To: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu (Mailing List Coordinator) X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) [Discussion of hunting on residential lines] New England Telephone does not charge any fee for hunting and will provide it to residential customers. The cheapest phone service in my area is about $5. With call waiting costing at least $3 (I can't get it -- more later) it makes much more sense to get two lines and the hunt. Of course installation of the second line does cost something... This is basically the only option in my town as we have a step-by-step exchange. The old mechanical dinosaur does not handle touch-tones (it takes forever for the modem to dial...) and needs to have its contacts cleaned every few weeks. N.E. Tel. Has informed me that they will put an ESS into service on Nov. 3, 1990. It seems kind of odd that they know the precise day, but that's typical of them. -- Daniel Senie UUCP: harvard!ulowell!cloud9!dts Stratus Computer, Inc. ARPA: anvil!cloud9!dts@harvard.harvard.edu 55 Fairbanks Blvd. CSRV: 74176,1347 Marlboro, MA 01752 TEL.: 508 - 460 - 2686