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  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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