On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, David Lesher wrote:
http://www.att.com/ndr/ndr_e_d.html
Quote: (AT&T has never lost an entire central office),
Oh?
I'm thinking of that panel office fire in NYC, circa 1970.
I've spoke with one of the people involved in the recovery of that office. The AT&T switch continued to operate through the fire and several weeks afterwards. They have a tape of a newscast where Mayor Koch is praising the efforts of New York Telephone and the people of New York. A better example is Hinsdale Illinois. As far as I know, I haven't met anyone personally involved with that one. It disrupted a lot of service, I don't think the fire destroyed the entire building. The most recent example is Rochelle Park, NJ; but I believe that building was officially owned by Bell Atlantic. There the damage was limited to power equipment. With divesture, the pre-divesture disasters as well as the Bell logo went on to the books of the LECs. AT&T's NDR has only been around since 1991. So the statement is technically correct, although it omits some details.