Requires free registration and Acrobat reader. The trouble spots are cropping up all over the country. According to documents obtained by Network World, as of Jan. 20 there was at least one hot spot in 21 states and the District of Columbia. We're having a really tough time getting new access lines in,'' said Donn Greiner, a telecom analyst for United Services Automobile Association, a big insurance and financial services company in San Antonio, Texas. Not all areas within a state are affected by a shortage.
Hot spots change weekly.
Some users are responding by shifting traffic to MCI Communications Corp. and Sprint Corp., both of which say they are not holding back T-1 access orders. The carrier is ordering new ports and conducting an ''asset mining'' program to locate vacant ports on the switches, he said. But that strategy change is coming late in the game. I guarantee you have a lot of sales reps who are very nervous right now,'' said one large Tariff 12 user who asked not to be identified. Inc. All rights reserved.