kendall@uunet.uu.net (kendall) (10/21/89)
In reference to Dennis Brophy's article I must say that I find it amazing that telephone service to the SF Bay area continued as well as it did given the magnitude of the disaster. I rang friends in Los Altos Hills (between SF and San Jose) around 06:30 hrs. CA time with minimal effort. Granted it did take a few times to finally get past the 'OTC circuits busy to that area' message but I did get through. The Australian OTC connects to AT&T in America so, as far as AT&T's service is concerned, it was working very well for us. For that matter, I rang a friend earlier in Davis (916) at around 0:30 hrs. CA time Wednesday morning who could not ring anybody on MCI because the MCI access was out. Is this because MCI's access comes from the Bay Area?