Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!vector!nobody From: westmark!dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Improvements? Message-ID: Date: 25 Dec 88 22:38:36 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 210, message 7 In article , GREEN@wharton.upenn.edu (GREEN) writes: > Sometime in the past month, the sound quality of my AT&T ld calls improved > tremendously - you can practically hear Sprint's pin drop. Does anyone > know if they've recently upgraded their lines? ... AT&T, in the face of competitive pressure, is rapidly replacing most of its analog toll network with digital facilities. A very good signal-to-noise ratio is characteristic of digital transmission. This is a long-term strategy, and is still in progress. If you suddenly noticed an improvement on all of your calls, it is more likely that a new higher-quality facillity has just been installed between your local central office and the AT&T switch (point of presence) serving your area. -- Dave Levenson Westmark, Inc. The Man in the Mooney Warren, NJ USA {rutgers | att}!westmark!dave