My school eventually merged the PA system with the PABX. Each classroom had a basic nortel meridian phone on the wall. However, you couldn't make any out going calls, (including internal ones) without a user ID and pin.
and harassing the secretary wasn't advisable!
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Re cable radio:
As digital cable replaces the old analogue services here, it's begining to be severely watered down (to just a few channels) or disappearing altogether (depends on the cable provider)
Parts of Cork's analogue cable network are very old and occasionally, due to insulation leaks, cable FM ends up on air and interferes with normal FM broadcasts! (in a very limited area near the leak)
From what I can tell, due to Sky Digital (satellite)'s dominance, Chorus, the local cable company, is loosing customers very rapidly. Last year it effectively went bust and was taken over by Liberty Media. The falling customer numbers and subsequent lack of income means that the network is starting to suffer rather badly from lack of investment.
It's quite possible that some of those cable cos will just disappear.
[This message has been edited by djk (edited 12-22-2004).]
