Originally posted by MNDAVE:
I'm going to assume that NY Tel simply continued charging for GSTs.
Yup. And to the best of my knowledge they still are. And are still delivering GSLs.
Our situation was compounded by the fact that when the Bank ordered their network switching equipment from GTE they first checked with NY Tel to see if T-1 trunking was available. NY Tel said not for the OGTs, but certainly for the DIDs. We installed the switches and waited for the Telco install.
It never came. Turns out that, Woops! #1ESS switches didn't offer direct T-1 access. Being as the Bank had already ordered, paid for and taken delivery of Digital Trunk Frames NY Tel finally (under threats - probably from their president) delivered 192 DIDs on T-1.
They ran the analog DIDs in the CO into a bunch of channel banks and pumped the T's out to us on the site. Try to imagine trouble shooting . The switch saw the trunks as analog. Transmission saw the trunks as digital. If the whole T went out the switch said: "What?". If an individual trunk went out Transmission said: "What?"
Usually what we heard was Ed's favorite:
MBSWWYP
Sam
