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Subject: Re: Telco Hassles
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 19:35:00 EST
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> [Hanging up the receiving end usually breaks the circuit.]
> The only case where this doesn't happen is in local calls in extremely
> old-style step-by-step telephone exchanges, which are few and far between
> these days.

I note that this problem occurred in Hawaii, where the phone company is
a traditionally sleepy subsidiary of ITT.  Perhaps there really is an
ancient step exchange there.

John Levine, ima!johnl