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I recently tried to order a dry pair from AT&T to connect an OPX phone to a PBX on the other side of town. After talking to different people and asking for different circuits like dry pair, alarm pair, OPX, etc, I gave up. The usual response was "What data rate do you want?"
We did not need it bad enough to pursue it any further. We finally just got a POTS line.
-Nelson
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For an OPX:
PLNE (Private Line No Equipment) or PLNA (Private Line No Apparatus) were the most recent common circuits I remember seeing.
Sam
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Definitely was a LOT easier to order special circuits 10-20 years ago. The clerks knew what the heck they were peddling! Some of them even would read the description out of their manual to you if you were nice and they weren't backed up with work. And SWB, at least, had a book of circuit descriptions you could have for the asking. Of course, they also had a source phone number to get milliwatt numbers, silent term numbers, and a lot of other stuff, just for interconnects. It's probably all gone now, although I retired and moved, so I don't really need to know.(OR CARE)
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I've had some luck with provisioning DSL on circuits without dial tone. For that I have used "Dry Pair" to ask, even though I end up explaining to the rep what it is and they eventually "you can do that?".
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