telecom@ucbvax.ARPA (07/22/85)
From: Moderator <Telecom-REQUEST@MIT-XX.ARPA>
TELECOM Digest Sunday, July 21, 1985 8:42PM
Volume 5, Issue 8
Today's Topics:
A Long Distance Company Goes Bankrupt!
Equal Access and Voice Quality
Metallic circuits
higher rates for modems?
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Date: Fri 19 Jul 85 17:35:24-CDT
From: CS.MIAMI-VICE@UT-A20.ARPA
Subject: A Long Distance Company Goes Bankrupt!
Remembering that a local long distance company tried to 'burn' me by having
them be my '1+' carrier when I specifically asked for MCI, I would like the
net to learn that that company filed for protection from its creditors under
the famous Chapter 11. This news I got from the Southwestern Bell Tele-News
(800) 292-5680 which can only be received from within Texas. Other states/
phone companies may also have this. Just hearing (from the Tele-News) that
SATELCO (which I believe originally stood for San Antonio Teleco) has gone
under should make those who didn't and those who did believe in Equal Access
feel good. For those who were against Equal Access, think how the customers
who have SATELCO feel; probably looking to for stability (like AT&T or the
new IBM/MCI combo, and maybe very remotely GTE/SPRINT). For those who were
for Equal Access, think how the market place help to determine the better
phone companies; if they were good, then people should have flocked to it
and it should have been making money. Anyone have news on how the other
long distance companies are faring? Who's next to be axed!?!?
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Date: Fri 19 Jul 85 17:44:40-CDT
From: CS.MIAMI-VICE@UT-A20.ARPA
Subject: Equal Access and Voice Quality
Has anyone noticed a significant difference between the past (before Equal
Access) and the present (Equal Access) in terms of quality of reception
for the long distance companies? Has anyone used any of them for any
significant amount of data transmission?
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 23:16:13 PDT
From: vortex!lauren@rand-unix (Lauren Weinstein)
Subject: Metallic circuits
Metallic leased circuits are becoming increasingly difficult to
obtain in many areas, and will eventually be essentially impossible
to obtain outside a local CO in metro areas. In fact, given the
increasing use of digital subscriber line circuits, it will eventually
be difficult to get metallic circuits even WITHIN a single CO. When
purchasing modems for medium to long term use, it's a bad idea to
rely on the possibility of metallic circuit availability.
--Lauren
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 85 12:02:08 pdt
From: Doug Claar <hpda!hptabu!dclaar%hplabs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Subject: higher rates for modems?
Can/does the phone company (Pacific Bell, if it matters) charge more
for a phone line that is occasionally used with a modem? If so, on
what basis? Someone here says they can and do, which worries me, since
I told a Bell representative that I didn't want call waiting because it
would mess up my computer connection. Did I blow it?
Doug Claar
HP Information Technology Group
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