woody <djcl@contact.uucp> (02/11/90)
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