ggw@duke.cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) (02/27/90)
Greetings from the 919 GTE satrapy! Here is a submission with a variety of notes about what's happening in the Durham and North Carolina area (telecom related). EXPANSION OF NUMBERING PLAN IN 919 All "long distance" calling in 919 will require access+10 digits starting sometime in March, 1990. The consumers have lots of lead time on this one! 2 weeks ago, a few articles appeared in a few newspapers around the state revealing that the phone companies are running out of exchange numbers in the 919 area code, and soon we will have to start dialing all non-local calls with the full 10 digits. The selected start date for this new dialing scheme is at midnight following Friday, March 2nd, 1990. Southern Bell is coordinating the cutover with all 919 carriers. NC PUC CATCHES SBT IN LETTER CAMPAIGN The NC Public Utilities Commission is considering rules for the offering of CPID/ANI in the state. Several consumer advocacy and privacy watchdogs have intervened in the case to prevent the introduction of the service without some form of protection for certain classes of businesses and individuals. SBT management sent a memorandum to its employees encouraging them to send letters supporting CPID/ANI to the PUC and informing the employees doing so that they should not reveal that they are SBT employees and providing several example letters. The scheme was discovered by PUC staff noticing that they were getting a lot of identical letters mentioning the same business and situation (i.e. a pizza delivery service wanting ANI to help eliminate prank pizza orders). The number of letters received with this situation was more than double the number of pizza delivery services operating in the areas were the persons writing letters were located. PUC Investigators unearthed copies of the SBT memo and are reviewing all letters received for more duplicity. ORANGE COUNTY AND TOWNS INVESTIGATE MUNICIPAL BBS Inspired by the Santa Monica (California) PEN municipal BBS, a group of citizens in Orange County (Chapel Hill/Carrboro and Hillsboro are the major municipalities) have approached the county and municipal governments for funding and equipment to establish a similar system for the county and municipalities. Access to the system will be dial-up from home computers and a variety of terminals in public locations. Functions included feature email, community info databases and netnews-like discussion forums. The software for the project is being developed locally by the group. DUKE UNIVERSITY TO INSTALL FIRST DEPARTMENTAL ISDN SITUATION Duke University, featured as an ISDN test site in several AT&T switch ads in various publications is planning to completely rewire on of the departmental buildings on campus with full ISDN capable equipment in the spring of 1990. The Sociology department (the largest consumer of university computing resources on campus - outside of CS [which has their own equipment]) has been in desperate need of more lines in its building for several years, but there is no space in the existing plant to add more traditional circuits. To solve the problem, the Duke Telecom division has announced its plans to implement full ISDN in the department. Gregory G. Woodbury Sysop/owner Wolves Den UNIX BBS, Durham NC UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...dukeac!wolves!ggw [use the maps!] Domain: ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw@ac.duke.edu ggw%wolves@ac.duke.edu Phone: +1 919 493 1998 (Home) +1 919 684 6126 (Work) [The line eater is a boojum snark! ] <standard disclaimers apply>
goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) (03/04/90)
In article <4452@accuvax.nwu.edu>, wolves.uucp!ggw@duke.cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes: > Greetings from the 919 GTE satrapy! > EXPANSION OF NUMBERING PLAN IN 919 > All "long distance" calling in 919 will require access+10 digits > starting sometime in March, 1990. The consumers have lots of lead > time on this one! 2 weeks ago, a few articles appeared in a few > newspapers around the state revealing that the phone companies are > running out of exchange numbers in the 919 area code, and soon we will > have to start dialing all non-local calls with the full 10 digits. > The selected start date for this new dialing scheme is at midnight > following Friday, March 2nd, 1990. Southern Bell is coordinating the > cutover with all 919 carriers. It wasn't that much of a surprise. The _News_and_Observer_ (of Raleigh) carried an article *last fall* about the coming change. The most recent set of Southern Bell phone directories carry big warning messages about it right on the cover. The Chapel Hill/Carrboro directory, for example, came out in December, thus giving its subscribers at least three months advance notice. (In contrast, the Durham directory from GTE (dated January 1990) makes no mention at all about there being a change -- you have to read the fine print in the dialing instructions on page 15.) Also, my phone bill from a couple of months ago had an insert describing the change. (Note however, that I live in Cary, which is in Southern-Bell-land as opposed to the GTE Satrapy.) Incidentally, the new 11-digit dialing scheme applies to *both* NPAs in North Carolina: 919 and 704. It's not specific to 919. Bob Goudreau +1 919 248 6231 Data General Corporation 62 Alexander Drive goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!goudreau USA