Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: tel@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.e.lowe) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Three or more phone lines in residence Message-ID: Date: 29 May 89 01:14:32 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 178, message 3 of 4 I live in brand new development where all utilities are underground. Our nearest telephone junction box is Three houses away. (Should have been right in front of our house, but they screwed up. Seems they forgot to put one there). We have a two pair cable running from the junction box to our Network Access box outside. This limits me to two phone lines, unless I want to have more cables pulled underground. Does anyone know if the phone companies (New Jersey Bell in my case) have the ability to multiplex phone lines in a residential service? I would need independant lines for modems, fax machines, etc. Any ideas of pricing? What's the service officially called? I tried asking our business office, but they don't know their (BLEEP) from a hole in the ground, and two different technicians didn't even know what kind of switch we have here. (One thought it might be a Western Union switch ((Yes, Union, not Electric))) Thanks for any ideas! -- Tom Lowe tel@hound.ATT.COM or att!hound!tel 201-949-0428 AT&T Bell Laboratories, Room 2E-637A Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733 (R) UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T (keep them lawyers happy!!)