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- From: rocker@vnet.ibm.com (Joshua E. Muskovitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: At NYNEX, CNID is Coming Before E911
- Message-ID: <telecom12.850.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 15:06:18 GMT
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 850, Message 3 of 13
-
- I just got off the phone with by customer rep at NYNEX, to make sure
- that I get per-line blocking on my residential number here in
- Kingston, NY. (Kingston gets CNID on Monday.)
-
- To their credit, the rep understood everything I said, but pointed out
- that in this area, at least, we do not have enhanced 911 and so I must
- dial *67 911 in order for them to be able to find me. She claimed
- that the delay in setting up E911 ("we've been working on it for three
- years") is from the post office -- they have to convert all the Rural
- Route addresses and such to street addresses before an E911 system can
- be installed.
-
- Personally, I don't believe it. Why not simply install it now for the
- more urban addresses, and update it for those addresses when they are
- converted?
-
- Oh well. At least she offered to send me stickers for my phones.
-
-
- josh.
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: If she told you 'you must dial *67-911 in order for
- them to find you' then I would question how much she understood about
- what she was saying. *67 usually toggles the status of CLID delivery,
- but in any event it *never* affects the 911 display (if there is one;
- some older 911's don't have it.) PAT]
-