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- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 93 01:36:49 EST
- From: Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Equivalence Charges
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 12, Message 7 of 13
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- I was reviewing the phone bill for a company where I am consulting,
- and realized that Bell Canada is charging for one more equivalence
- feature than I would expect, e.g. there is a hunt group of three lines
- - the one published number hunts to the second if busy, which hunts to
- the third if second is busy, and that's the end - busy signal. Bell
- charges for three equivalence features for this.
-
- The droid in the business office insists that there is an 'ending
- feature' that must be installed on the third line to make it all work.
- I believe this is complete nonsense, but just before I open my mouth
- wide, could someone confirm that technically there is no 'feature'
- that need be installed on the last line of a hunt group?
-
- It would seem that this scheme of charging penalizes small business
- and residential users who have only a few lines. Large users will
- barely notice the 'n+1' charge distributed over many lines.
-
-
- Tony Harminc
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: When I worked at the UC phone room about 1960,
- there was one group of incoming trunks with *97* lines in a rotary
- hunt. MUseum 4-6100 hunted 6101 which hunted 6102 and on up the line
- to 6196. Outgoing calls from the switchboard started the other way
- around, with the first outgoing call on 6196 then backward one at a
- time. In actual practice the incoming calls met the outgoing calls
- around 6150. I thought that many lines in a hunt group was pretty
- outrageous. One time I tried busying out all the lines from 6100
- through 6195, then placed a call to 6100 ... it took maybe two seconds
- longer than usual to hunt that far before sure enough, it rang in on
- 6196. (This was about four in the morning.) PAT]
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