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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 13:26 PST
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: All Circuits Are Busy Now ...
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- I would have thought that by now AT&T would have stopped its annoying
- practice of drastically reducing its capacity on holidays. A number of
- AT&T employees have told me that for reasons that are not very clear,
- the company has traditionally blocked off a major amount of the
- system's capacity on various holidays such as Christmas and Mother's
- Day. This is the real reason you get the "All Circuits Busy"
- recording, not because there is an inordinate amount of traffic.
-
- Naturally, there is no trouble calling anyone on Sprint or MCI since
- these companies do not engage in this silly ritual of network choking.
- A lot of good it does to have calling plans with AT&T on holidays; you
- cannot use them!
-
-
- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115 | FAX:
- john@ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | 10288 0 700 FOR-A-MOO | +1 408 264 4407
-
-
- [Moderator's Query: Who told you they do this? Other than 'a number of
- AT&T employees', that is ... what possible reason could there be for
- shutting down large parts of the operation on the very times when the
- demand is greatest? Statistics published by AT&T show in fact the
- opposite of what you say: network traffic is very high on many 'family'
- holidays. Why has AT&T spend many millions of dollars in upgrading
- their network if they plan to shut it down on holidays? This just
- does not wash, JH. PAT]
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-