Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mks!wheels@watmath.waterloo.edu (Gerry Wheeler) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New Enhancements From the BOC's Message-ID: Date: 30 May 89 15:41:25 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 17 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 180, message 4 of 8 In article telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >SOUTHWESTERN BELL has begun a telemetry trial that allows utilities to read >home utility meters over a single telephone line. The test is being conducted >at about fifty homes in Kansas City, MO. A similar trial was conducted in Toronto, Ont., over ten years ago. I presume it involved Bell Canada and whatever Toronto utilities were interested. Anyone know what came of it? As a repairman at the time, we were only told about it so we wouldn't accidentally disconnect the telemetry device. I never heard any more about it. -- Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043