dms@MIT-HERMES.ARPA (David M. Siegel) (10/19/85)
Funny that you had problems getting call hunting going... I just want through the same experience myself. I asked for another phone line to be installed, with hunting going from my original number to the new number. New England Telephone put in the new line fast enough, but no call hunting. They told me it would turn on by 6pm the next day. After a week of telephone calls to the business office, they finally figured out that I'm on a crossbar switch, not an ESS, and that the new number can only be 500 digits apart from the old number for hunting to work. I had told them from the start that I wanted hunting between the two lines, so I wonder why they didn't give me a number that would work? Anyway, they changed the new number to something closer to the original number, and told me hunting would be on by 6pm the next day. Still no luck. After that, the business office told me that it was no longer their problem, and I should call the repair center. Well, to make a long story short, I called the repair center twice a day for 2 weeks before they turned that damn hunting on. The repair center blamed the delays on: hurrican Gloria, the Bell system breakup, the business office, the Sept college telephone service request crunch... Oh well, at least I have hunting now.