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From: thomas@mvac23.uucp (Thomas Lapp)
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Subject: Re: How Hugo Affected Telecom Service
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Date: 25 Sep 89 23:52:57 GMT
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Martin B Weiss  writes:
> My parents live on the SW corner of Puerto Rico.  They had minimal damage
> due to Hugo, as they were over 100 miles from the eye.  I haven't yet gotten
> through to them on MCI, although, using 10288, I have been successful several
> times with AT&T.

I noticed the same thing in trying to call my sister in Chapel Hill, NC
the night after the storm went through.  I kept getting a fast-busy when
using MCI, but ATT went right through.

I wonder if MCI was just getting more traffic through than it could
handle or whether some major trunks were down.  Of course this is a
sample of 2 which doesn't make it significant, but I would be curious
to know how fast the major telecom carriers get back up in the affected
areas.
                         - tom

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