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Volume 28 : Issue 304 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Re: Western Union's satellite loss
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:30:17 -0800
From: Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Message-ID: <d6hIm.5718$fE2.4801@newsfe04.iad>
Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>
>>Does AT&T provide LEC service in Illinois?
>
>
> Yes. But their phone book publishing subsidiary doesn't publish the
> phone books. Reuben H. Donnelley is the business listings publisher
> and the directories are a joint venture.
Do you know where in Illinois AT&T provides LEC service? I presume it
was not Ameritech territory. One, or more, independents?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 05:13:55 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: White Pages may fall victim of technology
Message-ID: <hctmuj$hi3$3@news.albasani.net>
Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>Does AT&T provide LEC service in Illinois?
>>Yes. But their phone book publishing subsidiary doesn't publish the
>>phone books. Reuben H. Donnelley is the business listings publisher
>>and the directories are a joint venture.
>Do you know where in Illinois AT&T provides LEC service? I presume it
>was not Ameritech territory. One, or more, independents?
Can you please be more specific with your question: ILEC or CLEC?
Post-divestiture AT&T or SBC-renamed-AT&T?
Illinois Bell/Ameritech/SBC was the ILEC in nearly all of Chicago and
suburbs and major downstate cities like Rockford, Springfield, some of the
Illinois side of the Quad Cities, and a lot of the Illinois side of the
St. Louis metropolitan area.
Post-divestiture AT&T was a CLEC when it was in the cable tv business, but
those customers are now Comcast subscribers. AT&T was also a CLEC unrelated
to cable television, apparently in non-cable areas, but I don't know what
period that was in.
But CLECs don't have telephone book publishing subsidiaries for the
communities they serve, so I'm lost on what you are getting at.
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:14:46 -0800 (PST)
From: benfmo <benfmo@gmail.REMOVE_NOSPAM.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Western Union's satellite loss
Message-ID: <d9ab1063-d641-43c7-88a3-a19f72384175@h14g2000pri.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 4, 2:36 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> > ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> > I'm curious which location(s) still had Morse circuits in operation in
> > 1965: I'm a member of the Morse Telegraph Club, and the history of
> > Morse always interests me.
>
> In the WU newsletters they mentioned lines out in the west in service
> circa 1960. (I thought I submitted that as a post here).
>
> The 1965 reference was a side mention of operator's duties in NYC.
> That is, apparently in the main buliding in New York they still had a
> Morse station in 1965. I don't know what it connected to. I got the
> impression from context that it was not frequently used.
>
> In its heydey,WesternUnionswitched trunk circuits around to
> accomodate traffic flow. For example, a political convention or
> presidential visit required extra circuits for media staff to use. I
> suspect the 1965 Morse circuit was an older backup circuit. The 1960
> circuits out west appeared to regular trunks.
>
> As Mr. Haynes mentions, perhaps this line served railroad needs.
I worked for WU 30 years in Kansas City. I removed the last morse
station in 1968.
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