berry (02/17/83)
#N:zinfandel:4900007:000:776 zinfandel!berry Feb 17 09:20:00 1983 I once went to my local telco office and asked to see the tariffs governing data communications. (I was trying to decide if a leased line would be cheaper than long distance calls to my com- puter). When I was trying to find out how much leased lines cost, it took me about seven calls to 4 different offices to find out! I got disgusted, and thought I'd find out myself. Sure enough, they cheerfully let me peruse them at my leisure. The only prob- lem was, they are next to impossible for 'laymen' to understand. The obtuse regulatory wording and hodgepodge organization makes it difficult to find out what you want to know unless you already know it. Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (decvax!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (The office was in Vallejo, CA.)
dws (02/22/83)
the tariff lists services and things which are available from the telephone company and there is a tariff for the telegraph company. it's nice to see a catalog of all possibilities, for example a braodcasting group might like a line for an symphonic transmission from the local concert hall or for an athletic event with higher fidelity. sometimes the company representative may not be as informed as this documentation with specifications and rates.