Your Number One Suburban Newspaper Ped aa mers On TV listings ‘return Wednesday PREM waar Ge, rs SRR ARs \ DUE TO technical difficulties, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday television listings will not be published in today’s newspaper. The News apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause our readers. Regular ty y Pe cova ado Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 44 pages 25¢ | ahead! 1° FOR THOSE who have § been getting too. much sleep lately, Pacific Standard. Time became Daylight Savings Time at.-two o’clock. . this morning. ae - All clocks, watches, “and © other timepieces should have been turn-. ‘sed ahead ‘one-hour. If “not, you are already _ffcone: hour ‘late for .. whatever. it was ‘ you § planned to do today. _ The lengthening days of. .the~. approaching summer‘are apparent és «this photo “of ‘cranes - shot recently during the early’ evening. at. : the Nersatile Pacific. ship- ‘in:. North: Van- Modern NORTH VANCOUVER telecommunications are about to join the electronic age. ; On Sept. 21, B.C. Tel will com- digital electronic telephone switch plete installation of a $22 million in its central North Vancouver of- NEWS photo Terry Peters A B.C, TEL central office maintenance man works at the alarm control display terminal of North Vancouver's new GFD-5 electronic telephone switch. The new $22 million switch is the largest of its kind in the world and will plug North Vancouver into electronic switching technology September 21. world and will catapult) North Vancouverites into modern tele- phone technology.. Approximately 46,000 customer lines will be affected by the switch over. “The switching technology in- volved will be the most advanced in the province,’’ B.C. Tel spokesman Larraine Code said Friday. Telephone subscribers, like those who complained in an Aug. 4, 1985 News article that their digital phones were hobbled with the area’s outmoded electro-mechan- cial telephone technology, will fi- nally reap the efficiency of digital communications. Code said the whole GTD-5 system is self-diagnosing, and will monitor its own efficiency, thereby SAD Biles Ta Ra at BS GRE ae NP identifying maintenance problems before they become major system breakdowns. Besides providing an overall im- provement in dialling efficiency, the GTD-5, according 10 Code, will be able to provide an elec- tronic smorgasbord of computer communications services, including call forwarding, three-way calls and speed dialling. Call forwarding, Code said, will allow subscribers to have their im- portant telephone calls automatically ‘transferred to tele- phone numbers outside of their home. Three-way calls would allow res- idential conference conversations from three different homes, she said, while speed dialling will give North Vancouver residents the op- tion of converting up to 30 com- monly called seven-digit telephone numbers to two-digit numbers. Though the additional cost of such specific services will be $3 each per month, Code said there would be no general increase ‘in television listings will resume in Wednesday’s edition. phone system to be installed at last TO G By TIMOTHY RENSHAW ews Reporter fice. The 50,000 line GTD-5 switch will be the largest of its kind in the North Vancouver telephone rates because of the electronicswitch over. Code said that rates are calculated on an area’s total tele- phone number count. Increases are based on the amount of telephone numbers a subscriber can reach without paying long distance fees. Classified as a Group 1! rate zone, North Vancouver straddles the mid-point on B.C. Tel’s 19- group rate schedule. Group J! subscribers pay an $11.55 monthly access fee com- pared to $5.65 for Group one and $17.35 for Group 19 subscribers. West Vancouver has enjoyed electronic switching since May, 1985. Approximately 80 per cent of B.C. has now been upgraded to electronic switching, according to Code. North Vancouver exchanges in- cluded in September’s electronic switch over will be 980, 984, 985, 986, 987, and 988. Code said Deep Cove would be plugged into the GTD-5 system sometime in 1987.