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Show Ma Bell Offers Four Custom Calling Features In South SL On July 17, approximately 46,000 telephone customers in the Salt Lake South area joined the world of Electronic Switching Systems (ESS). MOUNTAIN Bell Utah Vice President Mack Lawrence said this conversion is the largest in Utah and one of the largest in the Bell System. "This project was completed at a cost of nearly $19 million and provides the most modern service available to our South Salt Lake telephone customers," custom-ers," Lawrence commented. As with other ESS cutovers, he said the new equipment provides pro-vides faster and more efficient service for customers. "In addition, it makes it possible for customers to choose four optional Custom Calling features," fea-tures," Lawrence said. THE FEATURES include Call Waiting, Call Forwarding, Speed Calling and Three-Way Calling, according to the Mountain Bell executive. "As you can well imagine, a cut of this enormity requires a lot of preparation and teamwork. team-work. We began working on this conversion in November of 198 1 and since that time our employees collectively put in a quarter of a million man-hours completing 'behind-the-scenes' activities," he explained. ex-plained. SOME OF these activities, according to Lawrence, included in-cluded a complete verification of the entire office following the engineering, installation and connection of the 46,000 customer lines. |
