dattier@jolnet.orpk.il.us (David W. Tamkin) (09/25/89)
Larry McElhiney wrote in digest volume 9, issue 390: | Late 1970's through early 1980's Plantronics Inc. in Santa Cruz, CA built | and marketed a system called CentraVox--a CO based answering machine for | individual subscribers. FCC ruling against recording devices in COs | finally killed the product line. Really? Recently both Illinois Bell and Centel have offered CO-based voice mail in metropolitan Chicago: IBT to customers of the Summit CO and Centel to anyone willing to phone into the Park Ridge CO. IBT's service includes stutter dial tone when you pick your phone up (to indicate messages waiting in the voice mailbox), and Centel's has toll saver to the extreme: no ringback whatever (immediate transmission of the mailbox holder's greeting) if there are waiting messages; clearly both must be CO-based. Other Ameritech subsidiaries are test-marketing the same voice mail as that in Summit, Illinois, in one CO near Milwaukee and one near Indianapolis. Centel is offering voice mail in three other Illinois cities: Pekin, Galesburg, and Dixon. Was the FCC ruling reversed? Did it expire? David Tamkin dattier@jolnet.orpk.il.us {attctc,netsys,ddsw1}!jolnet!dattier P. O. Box 813 Rosemont, Illinois 60018-0813 (312) 693-0591 (708) 518-6769 BIX: dattier GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN CIS: 73720,1570 Jolnet is a public access system, where every user expresses personal opinions.