Telecom-Request%usc-eclc@brl-bmd.UUCP (01/13/84)
TELECOM Digest Friday, 13 Jan 1984 Volume 4 : Issue 8
Today's Topics:
Alternative LD Services
The rise of the computer state
Corridors
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Date: 12 Jan 1984 1219-PST
Subject: Alternative LD Services
From: WMartin at Office-3 (Will Martin)
After seeing that chart I sent in Telecom, I remembered the other
comment on the subject I meant to add:
I have a friend who subscribed to one of the alternative services; I
believe that he chose Allnet based on price. He does save money.
However, he has found that he is often cut off in the middle of
conversations. His habits included late-night calls that continued
for long durations. He has found that his connections were often
abruptly terminated. He complained to the vendor, and was told that
this was normal, and he should expect it. It seems that portions of
their network are shut down during periods of low usage, and calls can
still be made via alternate paths, but calls in progress on the
affected portions are interrupted without warning. This is of course
irritating, and a definite inferiority to standard Bell/AT&T service.
Could we have comments from others on this list who use the altenative
services with regard to these sort of "quality" issues, as opposed to
basing all our comparisons on price alone?
Will Martin
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Date: 12 Jan 1984 1636-PST
From: Jon Solomon <JSol@USC-ECLC>
Subject: The rise of the computer state
A submission prepared by Rob Kling of the University of California,
Irvine, talking about the Rise of the Computer State, and how some
politicians are using computers to increase their power unfairly
(those are his opinions, not those of the TELECOM moderator), is too
large to sumbit to the digest.
The file is being made available for FTP from the archive host,
SRI-CSL. The file is <TELECOM>COMPUTER.STATE. SRI-CSL accepts the
ANONYMOUS login convention for FTP.
If you cannot access the ARPANET to ftp this file, send mail to
TELECOM-REQUEST@USC-ECLC and I will be happy to forward you a copy by
return mail.
Cheers,
--Jsol
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From: pyuxbb!ggr%eagle@BRL-BMD.ARPA
Date: Wed, 11-Jan-84 15:53:02 EST
From: Guy Riddle <decvax!pyuxbb!ggr@BRL-BMD.ARPA>
Subject: Corridors
As usual, New Jersey is considered an appendage of New York City or of
Philadelphia, but I'll restrain my flaming for now.
Two questions for you experts out there:
1) If calls between the North Jersey LATA (most of it) and NYC (212)
are handled by New Jersey Bell (and show up on the intra-LATA
portion of your bill), who approves the tarriffs for these
rates? They are still inter-state, but NJB normally deals
with the NJ PUC not the FCC.
2) When the explicit-carrier routing plan gets installed, can a user
choose to route these calls via AT&T-C or MCI instead of
through NJB?
=== Guy Riddle == AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway ===
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