[Telecom] Switch to AT&T PSTN from local telco

[Telecom] Switch to AT&T PSTN from local telco

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[Telecom] Switch to AT&T PSTN from local telco Steven Stone 05-19-2008
Posted by Steven Stone on May 19, 2008, 4:50 pm
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Work told me to switch my home office POTS from the local Frontier
telco to a corporate managed AT&T PSTN service.
A friend who used to work for Frontier tells me AT&T does not have a
POP in the Middletown, NY central office. I made this known to work and
their reply was my location "qualifies" for AT&T service so I should
make the change. How can AT&T deliver when there is no local POP ?

Steve


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Posted by Scott Dorsey on May 20, 2008, 1:37 pm
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>Work told me to switch my home office POTS from the local Frontier
>telco to a corporate managed AT&T PSTN service.
>A friend who used to work for Frontier tells me AT&T does not have a
>POP in the Middletown, NY central office. I made this known to work and
>their reply was my location "qualifies" for AT&T service so I should
>make the change. How can AT&T deliver when there is no local POP ?

They subcontract to the local telco.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."


Posted by Rob Levandowski on May 22, 2008, 6:45 am
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> Work told me to switch my home office POTS from the local Frontier
> telco to a corporate managed AT&T PSTN service.
> A friend who used to work for Frontier tells me AT&T does not have a
> POP in the Middletown, NY central office. I made this known to work and
> their reply was my location "qualifies" for AT&T service so I should
> make the change. How can AT&T deliver when there is no local POP ?

I seem to recall in the '90s, when I lived in Rochester, NY -- not long
after Rochester Telephone changed their name to Frontier, and well
before they sold out to Global Crossing and were then sold to Citizens
-- that AT&T offered CLEC service in Rochester.

Another possibility is that their "AT&T" service might actually be
through ACC Business. ACC Telecom, also based in Rochester, used to be
a CLEC focusing on colleges and small businesses. AT&T bought them in
the late '90s. They still operate as an independent business division.

--
Rob Levandowski robl@macwhiz.com


Posted by Who Me? on May 22, 2008, 7:41 pm
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> How can AT&T deliver when there is no local POP ?
>

FX service? A common way to connect "small", "remote" locations to a PSTN.


Posted by Steven Stone on June 10, 2008, 6:34 pm
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Follow up - I put in the paperwork as directed by work.
Manager approved paperwork, week later e-mail from AT&T rep says
"Sorry, Service not available in your area." Directed to use plan C,
which is retaining home office local number and order phantom number /
phone mail forwarded from nearest corporate office to home office,
about a 30 mile drive in an adjoining LATA. My local telco friends were
right.. the AT&T database was broke.

Steve


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