There have been a proliferation of small telecommunications companies that
offer cheap rate calling cards all over the U.S lately. These companies
usually have small switches that can only accomodate a small volume of call
traffic, although they try to sell as many calling card minutes as possible
to increase their profit margin. They buy minutes from the big providers or
their resellers. An influx of large call traffic can result in busy circuits
because these switches just cannot handle the volume.Infact, sometimes, the
switches can crash. Both of these occurrencies results in customers getting
continuous busy signals. However, if your calling card is issued by one of
the big three, (AT&T, Sprint, MCI) or their major resellers, there should be
no problem.


Jabou

In a message dated 1/5/00 4:53:02 AM Central Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

<< Folks,

 I have just finished talking to The Gambia an hour ago, probably, the
hitches in our phone calls may be due to busy circuits or some technical
fault of some sort which is unconnected with the Millennium computer bug.
Again, this is not to infer that the call failures had nothing to do with the
 Y2K bug.  Minor glitches are bound to happen here and there as expected
earlier.  I work for a US$5 billion computer distribution company,
nonetheless, some aspects of our systems have problems with the date
roll-over from 1999-2000.  Our Catalyst System in particular is still reading
05/1/2000
 thus:   05/1/1900 as I write this e-mail.  Considering the magnitude of the
company's investment one would have thought this unimaginable so let us not
make our country's glitches out of the ordinary.

 At this point we can only be optimistic and hope for the best just as
everybody else does.

 Happy Eid-El-Fitr to all in advance.

 OB Silla.
  >>

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