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telephone switching equipment. After it replaced the old
switching equipment at its exchanges with the new Alcatel
switching equipment, NITCO paid off the remaining purchase money
debt of $669,530 that it owed on the old equipment to the old
equipment's manufacturer.
When NITCO ordered the Alcatel E10-5 switching equipment for
its five exchanges in 1985, Alcatel had represented to NITCO that
Alcatel would continue to engage in research and development
efforts that would allow the Alcatel equipment that was purchased
to be upgraded in future years so as to offer enhanced and
improved telephone services. In 1988, NITCO purchased and
installed another piece of Alcatel switching equipment, an
Alcatel 1210 access tandem toll switch, at its central office.
The Alcatel E10-5 switching equipment installed in NITCO's five
exchanges performs switching functions in each exchange and is
connected to the Alcatel 1210 tandem toll switch, which provides
access to long-distance telephone service carriers, equal access,
and 800 call capability to all of NITCO's exchanges. With the
E10-5 switches and the 1210 switch, NITCO can provide equal
access, touch-tone services, direct long-distance dialing, call
forwarding, call waiting, three-way calling, speed dialing,
foreign exchange lines, pbx services, call tracing, and 911
services to all its exchanges.
In various 1990 NITCO publications circulated to NITCO's
customers and employees, NITCO stated that the Alcatel switching
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