Hello-- I've been making note of a local situation that seems somewhat irritating, and thought maybe some of you experts out there, might be able to propose some alternatives.
The situation goes like this: Rural Wyoming. Cody, to be exact, but I'd wager that you could almost anywhere in Wyoming and find similar situations. The county gov. phones and the school system phones do not provide callerid. Why? because they bought T1's at like $1k/mo instead of separate lines at $100/line/mo each. Saves them a ton of money. Has been for years. 5 or more years ago, callerid was not available out here. Slowly, over the last 5 years or so, they have been upgrading the populace, so now, almost everyone reports callerid, except the county gov., and the school system. They come thru as "unavailable". They both want it, but they can't afford to get/give it. They'd have to switch back to individual lines to get that, at over 2x the cost, and they'd rather die. Now comes the interesting part. Qwest is offering most customers the option to block anonymous calls. All you have to do is dial a *xx and you won't get those pesky charity/politicals/telemartket/pollsters/magazineresubscibers/etc. And you won't get the county gov. or the school system calls either. Why? Well, apparently, they say that the switches in Cody/Powell are old, feature-free switches, and one is a slave switch to the other or some such. And these old switches provide no capability to play with CID on T1 lines. And they sure as heck are not going to upgrade the switch for a small group of country bumpkins. What's interesting to me, as that of all the features they send us little pamphlets about in our monthly bills, very few of them are actually available here. Are there any clever solutions to this problem, for the county gov or school system? murf -- Steve Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Electronic Tools Company
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