Re: New CT1 tarriff from US West

James Laszko (james@tfbnet.com)
Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:40:47 -0700

At 08:28 PM 7/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, James Laszko wrote:
>
>> Pac Bell has always told me that you can hunt (callforward on busy, really)
>> from POTS to CT1, but not the other way around. CT1 can fallover to
>> another trunk easily on fault or busy, but can't fallover to POTS.
>
>
><WAY OFF TOPIC>
>NO NO! Hunt and call forward on busy are 2 DIFFERENT things. They do NOT
>work the same way. CFOB (call forward on busy) will only call forward 1
>incomming call (unless the call is from within the same CO and its a
>digital switch) Otherwise you WILL get a busy no matter HOW many open
>lines there are on a 2nd hunt group. I know this for ABSOLUTE fact as we
>just cancelled several isdn lines ordered for our new hybrid phone system
>after 4 weeks of working with SWBT to make it work. They weren't even sure
>but THOUGHT they could make it work.

Um, no, actually that's not how it works over here... We've got a whole
bunch of POTS lines in a multiline huntgroup. The very first number in the
group has Call Forward on Busy to our first SuperTrunk (CT1). When the
POTS lines fill up, the calls start filling in on the SuperTrunk. When the
SuperTrunk is full it falls over to other SuperTrunks through the "disaster
preparedness scenario" that Pac Bell provides incase of failure or
saturation on trunks.

>This is what we (SWBT and us) concluded...
>
>The ONLY way to make it work is order call forward on busy on the LAST
>line in the first hunt group, THEN you must pay for each additional path,
>which in Houston is $28/mo per line. So if you have 20 lines in a 2nd hunt
>group that you want to be hunted from the first hunt group, you will pay
>$28*20 EXTRA ON TOP of the $2 to $5 per line that you already pay for the
>hunt service.
>
><Back on topic>
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