Preston Lewis
@ca.us
| reply to Okman
Re: Pre-sale Question
said by Okman  :if you pick up the phone and you hear a dialtone, doesn't this automatically mean that you're connect to some local phone switch? but yeah check with AT&T that you can get dsl over the line at&t California is the old Pacific Bell/Nevada Bell system which has some oddities that many US telcos do not offer. One is that if you disconnect your phone line, you may continue to hear a dial tone, be able to dial 911 or 0 but basically can't use it for anything else until your line is disconnected because they need the circuit for another customer. So even after disconnect, you may have a dial tone for months but only for 911 really.
ZUM, for people who haven't ever heard if, was a PacBell/NevBell method for dividing up large cities into zones. Prefixes within your zone were free calls. Calls to other zones, maybe called Zone2 calls, were charged increasingly more as the call distance became larger. at&t has kept the ZUM/zone system through the SBC years and now the at&t years. Just info for those outside CA. |
