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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Biersack who wrote (32812)	10/5/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Marshall	Respond to of 33268

Do your own research Bob, you know my "pokings around" can't be trusted. :-)

To: Bob Biersack who wrote (32812)	10/6/1999 12:12:00 AM
From: Marshall	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33268

I think I'll post this over here too. I put it on Yahoo! but it'll be lost in a few hours. This is some things I gathered from my neighbor this evening who, if you recall, was the Senior Engineer for Southwestern Bell. Tech Team posed a few questions I needed to find the answers to. The questions were regarding: 1) When a call is forwarded does the caller ID at the final location show who's originating the call or just the phone it's being forwarded from? 2) If someone calls your home and the call is forwarded to another number and nobody answers there or it's busy does that call revert back to your voice mail? And the conversation with my neighbor produced: Now what I found out. If he recalls they had both ways (follows and doesn't follow) worked up for the caller ID/forwarding thing but he's pretty sure they just went with "no follow" in that you'd see the number it was forwarded from. Now enter the reason that he also thinks there may be some involvement with the telco - if onephoneline is offering Free Caller ID as stated on their site the caller ID signal MUST follow. As to going back to your voice mail upon hitting a busy or no answer forwarding station - yes, he remembers that was quite tricky to design as the tendency would be to go to the endpoint's VM instead of back. Easy to do on a PBX, a little more challenging when going across town or across the country. Ah, he certainly knows about Data Race, says he's surprised someone hasn't bought them out yet but offered the thoughts that the lawsuit with LU may be a holdup since few would want to step up until that's settled either way. Guy doesn't even own any RACE (that I know of) yet he was sure a lot more knowledgeable about it than the last time I talked to him and he commented that my other neighbor (semi-retired from AT&T) still has his RACE stock and seems to be very up on it. On DSL rollouts here - yes, it's finally going to be implemented for those requesting it IF they happen to be one of the lucky ones that can get it. He remembers all the loading coils they chunked in while building the system and he says they regret ever having done that. Sure - it saved them a lot of money by allowing the COs to be farther apart but now that they want to get rid of them they've found that virtually no records exist as to where they were placed. Many are inaccessible once they find them and it's not economically feasible to remove less than a bunch of 50 at a time. This means that if you're on a line with sporadic as opposed to centralized coil placements you're out of luck and remember that there can be more than just one on a line. He says that what the communications world is striving for is providing a "single bill" scenario much like AT&T is wanting to do in which you get your cable, phone and internet access all from one source. He stated that due to the hassles, costs and often impossibilities of putting in DSL services (it's either do an entire area or not regardless of the number of potential subscribers) it's very logical that a telco would want the ability to provide something exactly like ISP-BT. Not only would it be another option for them to sell it eases their problems regarding DSL as well as congestion in areas with pair shortages. I sure wish I could talk him into posting sometime, the guy was there when the system went together and he's still very up on everything that's going on now.