FONER%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU.UUCP (07/13/86)
I'm moving to Watertown, MA, area code 617. I want two lines installed, with hunting between them (I don't care if the upper line hunts back down to the lower one, since I expect I'll only give out the bottom line in the group). Now, before I talk to telephone people who probably don't know what's going on, I'd like to check something. I recall that hunt groups, of any size, are free if you just ask for them---no additional charges over what you'd be charged for N lines that aren't in a hunt group. Is this correct? Also, a hypothetical: while I expect that both lines will have identical service on them, is it possible to get different types of service for lines in a hunt group? (In other words, one line might have Suburban Contiguous while the other might have a smaller non-message-unit range or whatever.) Thanx much. <LNF>
Frankston@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (07/22/86)
I've had residential hunt in Boston for the last 15 years. There is no charge. They will give you a little grief if you want to have different services. Since I've always gone with metropolitan unlimited I haven't had to face this, but I have the impression one can get the split if one tries hard enough.
krossen@CCP.BBN.COM.UUCP (07/24/86)
> while I expect that both lines will have identical service on them, is > it possible to get different types of service for lines in a hunt > group? (In other words, one line might have Suburban Contiguous while > the other might have a smaller non-message-unit range or whatever.) I doubt you can do this. My exchange is served by New England Telephone as well, though I don't live in the same area code, and the company reps refused to allow me different grades of basic service in the same residence. I've wondered, though, what would happen if the phone is in another building, though on the same property. This only becomes an issue when we build our barn. e.g., They won't let me have measured service on my second line in the house because I can make all my local calls on the unlimited line, but am I allowed to have measured service on the barn phone, since I'd have to go into my house to make a "free" local call? I'd be interested to hear what you find out about hunt groups. -- Ken Rossen ...!{ihnp4,harvard,seismo}!bbnccv!krossen ____or____ krossen@bbn.com -or- krossen@bbnccp.arpa
jsol@BUIT1.BU.EDU (Jon Solomon) (07/28/86)
New England Telephone doesn't allow measured service and unmeasured (flat rate) service to exist in the same residential area (barns would be covered under this). However of the flat rate services (suburban, metropolitan, and just flat rate service), you can have whatever combination you want. At my residence I have 4 metropolitan services and 1 bay state service plan. --jsol