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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 01:24 PST
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: All Circuits Are Busy Now ...
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- On Dec 25 at 18:24, TELECOM Moderator writes:
-
- > 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?
-
- Then AT&T has a lot more work ahead of it. Just out of curiosity I
- made some test calls. Out of twenty-two attempted calls to Victorville
- from San Jose on AT&T, exactly one went through between 1 PM and 2 PM
- Christmas Day. Out of the same number of attempts on Sprint, all
- twenty-two went through without delay with exactly the same results
- were noted on MCI.
-
- How soon we forget. Hours after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, I
- tried at some length to get though to my home from southern
- California. All circuits were busy. Then I tried Sprint. The call
- went right through. Discussions right here on the Digest pointed to
- the policy of AT&T of purposely restricting incoming access to a
- disaster area. I, for one, was very grateful for the fact that AT&T's
- policies are not always imitated by the competitors.
-
-
- 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 Note: Do you think it could be the reason you got through
- on Sprint is because not that many people (relative to the facilities
- available) were using Sprint? AT&T is still the national favorite by
- a wide margin. Could it be the facilities available to the one are
- disproportionate to the actual traffic requirements? I still don't
- think they 'shut things down' ... an earthquake or other emergency is
- different than a family holiday. PAT]
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