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Posted by Bill on April 7, 2007, 10:08 pm
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My dear chap Jarret.
It is unfortunate that your home country Telecom has outsourced its
technical capabilities to some off shore former British Empire country
where the participants may be book smart, but lack the intristic capability
to understand what comprises a telecommunications network. Specifically, a
Telephone Network. Hopefully this will not happen to the US, at least in
the near future as much as it appears to be sliding in that same direction.
Outside of the comments on privacy, of which I totally agree with, your
quest to obtain information on how to identify disconnected telephone line
number, along with your comment on use of a Volt-Ohm meter,are significant
statements in that indicate your rather deep inexperience, and total lack
of understanding of what comprises a traditional telephone network. I
include your consultants, who, as it appears to me, getting being paid to
mmislead your organization. May I suggest that you fire them all.
Your quest to identify, and catalog working & non-working telephone
subcriber lines by means other than placing a direct dialed call is a
rather impossible task.
Unless you somehow were able to obtain telephone subscriber access loop
data from a telephone company repair record database. Someting that would
definitely not happen in the US, since this would be breaking both state,
and federal (US) laws dealing with privacy issues.
There are no technical solutions available to avoid the present method that
your organization employes to dial random telepone numbers as you describe.
This assumes that your calling agents are using telephone numbers from a
telephone directory that may be out of date in order to place all their
calls.
If your folks are dialing random ten digits (US), then it is pot luck to
insure that the area code (NPA), and the CO code (NXX) are correct, as well
as the four digit subsciber line number asociated with an NPA-NXX.
Sorry Jarret, but there is no easy pill available to obtain what you
originally inquired about. May I suggest that your company recruit & hire
retired telecom engineers to first help you identify the significance of
what dialtone is, and the line and trunk side terminations
I trust that you have not misplaced that snuff box....
Bill
> I wrote seeking assistance with a telecommunications problem I have
> encountered in the course of my work as an IT professional. I work for
> a highly respected company that is a household name in Australia,
> which provides individuals with the ability to shape government and
> corporate policy.
>
> My employer has no axe to grind, in fact we stay in business by being
> totally unbiased and accurately reporting the views of those who
> choose to talk to us. Because of our reputation, governments and
> corporations adjust their policies and procedures in response to the
> information we provide. They would not do so if we simply echoed the
> views of our management. They do so because we consistently prove that
> our results accurately reflect the opinions of the population.
>
> Achieving such accuracy requires a complex sampling methodology which
> is strictly enforced. Our staff are often frustrated by the difficulty
> of obtaining proportional representation by age group, sex and
> location, but they understand the necessity of remaining professional
> and not influencing their respondents.
>
> I foolishly joined this newsgroup with the expectation that I would
> find the same professionalism that I have experienced in my
> involvement with many other newsgroups over the last 15 years.
> Instead, I have received more abuse tonight than in the average
> decade, from people who give me the distinct impression that they
> wouldn't know a modem from a mouse.
>
> I am thoroughly disgusted with the lot of you and you should hang your
> heads in shame. You have made a mockery of this corner of Usenet. I
> will not name the groups that remain professional, from fear that you
> would pollute them too.
>
> That is all.
> Gordon
>
>
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