djcl@uunet.uu.net (woody) (03/22/90)
[The following is from PunterNet's telco conference...] Msg # : 107 of 110 - Ref 95/139 From : BERNIE WILCOX To : SYSTEMS OPERATORS Posted : 2125h on 16-Mar-90 * CONF 130 Subject: NBTel Offers New Services From: NBTel News - No.1 Vol 21. ------------------------------- Some NBTel customers will have the opportunity to use their telephone service in a new way, beginining the first of March. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved NBTel's request to offer Call Management Services (CMS) in the Rothesay, Hampton, Norton and Springfield exchange areas. NBTel will be among the first telephone companies in Canada to provide the Call Trace, Call Return and Call Display features. Through Call Management Services residence and single-line business customers will be able to identify callers before answering the phone, return the calls they missed or were unable to answer and initiate traces on malicious calls. "With these features, customers will, for the first time, have control over their incoming calls," said Brian Reid,executive general manager of customer services for NBTel. "And, these services represent just the tip of the iceberg in a whole new generation of home information services that will be available in the 1990s." NBTel plans to expand Call Management Services over the next two-to-three years to those communities in the province that are served by digital switching equipment. Info contact: Martha Edwards, Editor NBTel NEWS Information and Public Affairs Section P.O. Box 1430, Saint John, N.B. E2L 4K2 *Foggy Town Bulletin Board* - Saint John, N.B * Node 95 Msg # : 108 of 110 - Ref 95/140 From : PIERO ROCCA To : DAVE LEIBOLD Posted : 1737h on 16-Mar-90 * CONF 130 Subject: NBTel has had CMS for 1 month Guess what: New Brunswick Telephone has had caller I.D. now for about a month. Not bad for the Maritimes. Piero Rocca Lakers #1 Oilers Rule! *Foggy Town Bulletin Board* - Saint John, N.B * Node 95 End of Msg 108 [Posters note: Bell Canada tried the service for experiment in Peterborough Ontario a few years back. Given that the New Brunswick communities involved in the CMS (Caller ID, etc) project are not major centres in that province, it is likely something of a trial project to work out bugs and that before it gets inflicted on more sizable centres like Moncton, Fredericton, St John, etc.] || David Leibold "Art is anything you can get away with" || djcl@contact.uucp - Marshall McLuhan"