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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 13:55:20 EST
- From: dwn@dwn.ccd.bnl.gov (Dave Niebuhr)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Caller ID in Area Code 516
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- Caller ID was deployed in the 516, 718 and 914 Area Codes on Monday,
- November 16, 1992. I decided to take the list of exchanges that have
- that capability and derive some sort of figures concerning the
- breakdown of Area Code 516.
-
- Total Exchanges: 483
- Nassau County: 191
- Western Suffolk: 114
- Eastern Suffolk: 41
- Caller ID Avail: 209
-
- The balance of exchanges are special cased (Telco, Cell Services,
- Time/Weather, etc.)
-
- I noticed that exchanges bordering the Nassau-Suffolk Counties and the
- Nassau-Queens Counties borders do not, in a majority of the cases,
- have Caller ID. This non-availability seems to be fairly solid going
- about two Central Offices away from the borders.
-
- Another interesting thing is that if a portion of an exchange is taken
- by a major employer, CallerID is not available (516-282 and 516-341
- are good examples). My employer has 5,000 of the former and 100 of
- the latter).
-
-
- Dave Niebuhr Internet: niebuhr@bnl.gov / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 (516)-282-3093
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: I don't think the key here is if the subscriber is
- a 'major employer', but rather, the type of phone system the
- subscriber has, and of course large firms tend to have large and
- elaborate systems. I think what you are experiencing is a large block
- of numbers used for DID, centrex or other purposes where the software
- is not presently compatible with what is needed to do Caller ID. PAT]
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