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- NorthWestern Syndicate
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- Presents:
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- THE SYNDICATE REPORT
- Issue No. 2
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- Written by The Sensei
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- NOTE: The Syndicate Report is stictly Bell information, and without some
- background, could cause a problem to understand completely.
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- CENTREX/CENTRON CALL FORWARDING (CONTINUED FROM TSR ISSUE #1)
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- In the first article on Centrex/Centron Call Forwarding, I stated I
- would list a few Alternate Access Codes in the 5 state area. If you need
- the Alternate Access Codes in your area, try to contact me on most Ascii
- Express Lines.
- ALTERNATE
- LOCATION CENTREX/CENTRON ACCESS CODE
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- IOWA Sioux City (712-279) 8
- Council Bluffs (712-328) 8
- Des Doines-Northwest (515-270,278) 8
- "" "" -Dwtn. (515-286) 110
- "" "" -Ashworth (515-223) 8
- "" "" -East (515-263) 111
- Watererloo (319-291) 8
- Davenport 319-383) 8
- Cedar Rapids (319-399) 8
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- MINNESOTA
- Mpls.-Dwth. (612-344) 101
- Plymouth (612-536) 101
- Golden Valley (612-542) 111
- Bloomington (612-887) 101
- St. Paul-Midway 111
- New Brighton (612-631) *19
- St. Paul-Shoreview (612-482) 101
- St. Paul-Dwtn. (612-221) 111
- St. Cloud (612-255) 101
- Rochester (507-285) 111
- Brainerd (218-828) 111
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- NEBRASKA
- Omaha-Dwtn. (402-422) 101
- Omaha-Izard (402-554) 101
- Omaha-Fort (402-496) 101
- Grand Island (308-381) 8
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- NORTH DAKOTA
- Fargo (701-247) 8
- Bismark (701-222) 8
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- SOUTH DAKOTA
- Rapid City (605-394) 115
- Aberdeen (605-622) 115
- Sioux Falls (605-339) 115
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- Two additional locations are scheduled for conversion to Centron
- service soon and will be required to use the alternate access code for call
- forwarding at that time.
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- IOWA Dubuque (319-588) 8 due late June'86
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- NEBRASKA Norfolk (402-644) 8 due mid July'86
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- COMPETITIVE PHONE COMPANYS REACT:
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- MCI and GTE Sprint announced plans to reduce their LD rates effective
- June 1. The two companies said their rates would be competitive with AT&T,
- which had been earlier announced in TSR Issue #1 of the rate cut also
- effective June 1. Including 11.4 percent for day and evening hours and many
- other similar reduction.
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- NWB'S INTRO TO 'SMART PHONES':
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- NorthWestern Bell's Public Services line of business is field
- trialing a new coin phone product - one it had a hand in creating. The new
- coin phone product is the NBT(tm) 1062 Coin Phone Retrofit Kit designed by
- NWBell Technologies. The kit converts standard public coin phones -
- dependent on central office electronics - into "stand alone" coin phones,
- which has been labeled by codename as "Smart Phones." There are many new
- features of which customers will not notice. Although the only noticeable
- change between the retrofited coin phones and the raditional public coin
- phones is the voice in the retrofited mode, generated by the kit's electronic
- circuit board. It instructs user to deposit money. Currently the Smart
- Phones are being tested in 40 coin phones around the NorthWestern Bell.
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- LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (LAN):
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- A Local Area Network is a system of hardware and software that
- connects a variety of similar and dissimilar communications devices. These
- devices typically are operated by a single company for internal use within a
- limited geographical area. The System allows high speed communications
- between devices on the network while maintaining data security, Bell so
- boldly claims. A variety of transmission media are available in the LAN
- marketplace. These categorize the major types of Local Area Networks in use
- presently. The most prevalent are twisted pair (copper) and fiber optic
- cable. Because of its superior transmission capabilities, fiber is considered
- to be the media of choice for the foreseeable future within Bell. More info.
- on LAN will be presented in issue #3.
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- QUESTIONS:
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- If you come up with any questions on the articles in The Synicate
- Report, please contact me anyway possible. I will be happy to clear up and
- eliminate unwanted confusion.
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- This concludes this Issue No. 2 presented by:
- The Syndicate Report
- Copyright (C) 1986 July 4 by The Sensei
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- Other System Operators may use this file as long as nothing is altered
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