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Date: 10 Feb 90 16:08:39 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 91, message 6 of 9

1) Bell Canada hopes to replace practically all its mechanical switches
   in Ontario with the Northern Telecom DMS digital technology by the
   year 2000. Hundreds of thousands of lines will be cut over each year
   to this end. In fact, there are no longer step-by-step offices in
   Toronto or Hamilton (though a few crossbar exchanges are still hanging
   on, as are a few SP-1 electronic switches).
 
2) With the cutover to full digital service, CCS7 networks are being
   developed. Pending regulatory approval from the CRTC, Bell could be
   introducing the Caller ID and other CCS7-based features this spring
   in Ottawa and Quebec City, with other cities to follow after that.
 
3) The 9 February 1990 _Montreal_Gazette_ had an editorial that did not
   approve of the Caller ID service proposal. The basic arguments it had
   against it were that it was more beneficial to businesses than to
   residents; that some people who need to be anonymous (social workers,
   doctors, etc) could have their lives made more difficult, etc.
 
|| David Leibold   djcl@contact.uucp