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To: MangoBoy who wrote (28424)	11/6/1997 3:51:00 PM
From: SteveG	Respond to of 31386

<i thought line card slots were at a premium also> Don't know if this is true. <.. otherwise the telco would just add more line cards and relieve the contention for dialtone> Well, other than YOUR dialtone shortage in Seattle (and how can they get AWAY with that?), that's probably exactly what they do. <i must've missed the announcement of an industry standard for DSLAMs that would make this possible.> Don't know if DSLAMs necessarily need standardization for a CDSL unit to be adaptable to whatever DSLAM flavors are out there, but other than what I have reported (from what ROK told me directly last week), I don't know specifics. Steve

To: MangoBoy who wrote (28424)	11/6/1997 4:33:00 PM
From: SteveG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

<i thought line card slots were at a premium also, otherwise the telco would just add more line cards and relieve the contention for dialtone> The more I think about it, the more I doubt your supposition could be the case. In SCal, GTE is PUSHING second lines. I just got my 7th without any telco hesitation. And with more people moving into the area, they WOULDN'T turn business away. They'd just add another PSTN switch - ESPECIALLY if it generated GREATER revenue. S