Gabe Wiener <gabe@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu> (01/01/90)
Just for the hell of it, I tried dialing that Estonian BBS # directly,
and sure enough, I got an intercept saying, "Direct dial service is
available to Moscow only."
That sparked a few questions:
1. Why direct service only to Moscow?
2. How are international trunklines set up with countries with which we
have less than an amicable relationship? Who pays for and maintains
such lines?
3. What is the state of technology of the telecom system in Russia?
Do they build their own hardware? or import it?
4. Does subscriber trunk dialing (to use the British term) exist inside
the USSR? Or must all long-distance still be placed w/operator
assistance?
Thanks, and happy new year!
Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings
gabe@ctr.columbia.edu to be seriously considered as a means of
gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu communication. The device is inherently of
72355.1226@compuserve.com no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877Thomas E Lowe <tel@cdsdb1.att.com> (01/04/90)
In article <2515@accuvax.nwu.edu> Gabe Wiener <gabe@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu> writes: >That sparked a few questions: >1. Why direct service only to Moscow? I was trying to reach the Estonia BBS and the circuits to USSR were very busy. I got to talking to one of the operators in Pittsburgh (where they route international calls....there is also a center in Denver) and they said that ever since Moscow went to direct dial, the circuits have been incredibly busy. I suspect that if all of USSR went direct dial, that would just compound the problem. As it is now, there is at least a limit to the number of attempts for circuits to non-Moscow sites. The operator also told me that more circuits via satelite are supposedly soon to come. I did eventually get through to the bbs and got as far as entering a password and got disconnected. I tried and tried again all day till the afternoon and someone ended up answering the phone. I talked to him for a couple minutes. I told him I would try again another day to get the bbs. I don't know if it was the sysop or not, but it was apparently the correct number. Tom Lowe tel@cdsdb1.ATT.COM attmail!tlowe 201-949-0428 AT&T Bell Laboratories, Room 2E-637A Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733 (R) UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T (keep them lawyers happy!!)
Sakari Mattila <mattila@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> (01/06/90)
In calling Estonia BBS try Bell 102 modem at 300 b/s. This good old
modem goes thru almost any telephone system.
Sakari M. Mattila 71307.1525@CompuServe.COM
mattila@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi