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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:20:05 GMT
- From: ebupaf@ebu.ericsson.se (Pat Fargo 6266)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Deterioration of POTS
- Reply-To: ebupaf@ebu.ericsson.se
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- Organization: Ericsson Business Communications, Inc.
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- Back in the days when I worked at the Labs, I was lucky enough to go
- on Operating Company Assignment Program (OCAP). I was hosted by
- Southern Bell in Charlotte, NC. The most amazing part of Ma Bell were
- the volumes of standards for all aspects of the phone company. AT&T
- regulated maintenance, answer times, response time, and a million
- other control parameters to insure good service.
-
- I agree with John that we would not have as many new features, or the
- complexity we do now without competition, but have always felt it had
- to deteriorate because there was no more Ma Bell to look over the
- Opco's shoulders. Each Opco must now make money, and the first thing
- to go is the excess maintenance, and those characterisitics that made
- the service high quality. Its too late now to talk about it. Its gone.
- Bellcore was supposedly set up to be somewhat of a controlling body,
- but from my last experiences with it, nobody listened to it.
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- Patrick A. Fargo Ericsson Business Communications, Inc.
- Anaheim, California
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