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From: Carter@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (_Bob)
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Subject: Rochester telephone service
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 19:01:00 EDT
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    From: Tom Martin 

    I have been traveling a lot to Rochester, NY lately, and the most
    aggravating part of it (or even, the only aggravating part) is the
    terrible service provided by Rochester Telephone.  

I make fairly frequent calls from northern N.J. (201) to Hamilton, N.Y.
(315)824-XXXX, and vice versa.  I very often get the tones and the "All lines
are busy, try again" msg.  Is Hamilton in the Rochester LATA?

One thing *I think* I've noticed.  It seems that if I punch in the
numbers slowly and very evenly (about 2 or 3/sec.) the success ratio
tends to be much higher.

Would that be a crossbar trying to deal with the output from a DTMF
decoder or something of the like?

_B