Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marvin Sirbu) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Three or more phone lines in residence Message-ID: Date: 29 May 89 17:42:42 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 27 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 179, message 6 of 7 > 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. In most jurisdictions, the telephone company is obligated by tariff to provide as many lines as you want to your Network Access box for no more than the standard turn-on charge per line, whether there are wires already in place or not. If they have to pull an extra wire, the cost is averaged in with the costs of all the other hookups where they charge you $50 for nothing more than making a few entries at a terminal to turn on an existing line. They may choose, of course, to multiplex (FDM or TDM) several circuits on one wire if they decide that is cheaper. My guess, however, is that they will find it much less expensive to simply pull a new wire from the junction box to your house, and that they will do just that if you order a third line. Marvin Sirbu Carnegie Mellon University internet: ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu bitnet: ms6b+%andrew@CMCCVB