> On Fri, 23 May 1997, PM Mailing List wrote:
>
> > Has anyone ordering BRI lines from US West get a hunting group feature
> > installed? Just wondering how much it is (to hunt both data and voice
> > calls). Some sources (like US West's homepage) list it at $2/month per
> > line, while our rep at US West say it's $8.25 (the same as regular POTS)
> > because they are hunting analog calls. The same rep mentioned that it
> > isn't possible to hunt both data and voice calls on the same group. US
> > West is a pain in the butt, can anyone share their experience. We are
> > planning to have 8 BRI lines plugged into USR MP/16 I-modem, which is in
> > turn plugged into the PM2E30 (this can do X2 right?).
>
> I have seen several comments here and on other lists saying the same thing
> about hunting. I am not sure if the restriction on hunting both ISDN and
> analog services is a tarriff issue or a limitation of the central office
> switch. Based on the fact that there is a tariff preventing hunting from
> CT1 (digital T1 trunks) to PRI, I'm inclined to believe that this is also
> a tariff issue.
A combination is in effect... tariffing in many locales precludes going
any further in most cases... otherwise, if the groups are not on the same
switch then I believe you can't hunt across them... say a 455-xxxx number
CT1 on a DMS-100 and a 456-xxxx PRI on a GTD-5... so our telco says they
can't program the switches to hunt/call-forward across switches....
Personally, I think it is/should be technically possible, but perhaps it's
too much of a programming pain to do?
Just a thought...
-- Aloha,Sherwood