FWD: Pacific Bell's LA NAP in service

Wed May 8 06:13:56 UTC 1996

Bill Manning writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 7 May 1996, Kent W. England wrote:
> > 
> > > Pac Bell has announced their LA NAP is operational. Contact and details below.
> > 
> > 	Is there not already a MAE-LA? Why would thay have an LA NAP if even
> > MAE-LA hasn't taken off as of yet?
> > 
> > 	Just a question.
> > 
> > Christian Nielsen
> 
> 	Yes, there is.  I would expect that the NAP service is offering
> 	is an extention of the existing BayArea service.  This approach
> 	reduces the cost of entry of entry for people you are in the So.Cal.
> 	area to a local loop charge.  
> 	It appears that thye believe that a "distributed" service is
> 	more effective than two seperate exchanges.

If they can pull this inter-lata connection off without involving an
IXC, they would be selling long distance services immediately
rather than NAP services ;-) I understand PacBell will be ready to
provide inter-lata service early next year.

--pushpendra

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> --bill
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