PINE VALLEY

Type: Rural

Old Exchanges: Greenwood 3

POWAY

Type: Urban

Poway CO is located in a semi-rural type residential/business area common to horses and other ranch type animals.  The CO is made of red brick and exterior decorated with ranch type wood facades.  Note the "entrance fence" designed and painted like one would see at a barn.

Old Exchanges: RIverview 8

RAMONA

Old Exchanges: STerling 9

RANCHO BERNARDO

Type: Urban

RANCHO PENESQUITOS

A newly reconstructed CO replacing the older Rancho Penesquitos office.  This office is much more pleasing then the concrete block structures prevalent in the 60s-70s.

RANCHO SAN DIEGO

The Rancho San Diego office wins the award for the CO that looks most like a hotel.  A nice, hidden design with even complimentary landscaping.

Lucent 5ESS Host. 

RANCHO SANTA FE

Type: Suburban

Rancho Santa Fe CO serves the most expensive area in San Diego County where home prices can exceed $10 million.  Per local residents who pay millions for their homes they don't want to see bland utility buildings/structures.  Even the telephone company building is modeled in the Spanish style architecture with low profile entrances and vents.  There is no exterior signs or marking to denote it is a CO.  Passers by could just as well assume its one of the many clubhouses.

Old Exchange: PLaza 6 (756) 

SAN DIEGO 01 "C STREET"

Type: Urban

C Street is the oldest CO in San Diego having been constructed in the early 1900s for the Home Telephone Company of San Diego.  The right side of the building is the original structure showing the older architecture common at the turn of the last century.  To the right is the most recent addition (1976)  for load growth and increased capacity.

Old Exchanges: BElmont 3, BElmont 9, BEmont 2, BElmont 4 (234)

SAN DIEGO 02 "UNIVERSITY"

Type: Urban

University is the main CO or Tandem office for the San Diego region.  All other local CO's connect into this CO.  AT&T and other long distance carries are housed here.  The microwave structure on top is out of commission but when in service connected San Diego to the long distance microwave grid.  Paths from University included, Black Mountain, Crest, Julian and Boucher Hill. See Southern California Microwave sites for more information MICROWAVE SITES

Old Exchanges: CYpress 6, WOodcrest 5

Lucent 4ESS

SAN DIEGO 03 "LINDA VISTA"

Type: Urban

Old Exchanges: BRowning 7 (277), 8 and WOodlawn 7

SAN DIEGO 05 "SIAPAN"

SAN DIEGO 06 "37TH STREET"

Type: Urban

San Diego 37th Street was the second office built in the San Diego region to serve the East San Diego callers.  Bottom picture shows original building with nice stone arches and Spanish style 1920's construction.  Top picture shows modern addition in the 1970s to serve load growth.

The 1AESS analog switch was replaced with a DMS-100 digital in 2000.

SAN DIEGO 11 "COLLEGE"

Type: Urban

College was built in the early 1960s to relieve the 37th Street office and for load growth in the eastern San Diego/Lemon Grove areas.  College also serves the San Diego State University hence the CO "name"

Old Exchanges: JUniper 2 and CYpress 8

SAN DIEGO 12 "MARKET"

1AESS analog switches were replaced with 5ESS in early 2000.

Old Exchanges: COngress 4

SAN DIEGO 14 "OCEAN BEACH"

Type: Urban

Old Exchanges: BAyview 3 (223), ACademy 2, ACademy 3

SAN DIEGO 15 "REGENTS"

Undergoing expansion in 2003

SAN DIEGO 16 "MIRA MESA"

Built in the early 1970s to relieve the Linda Vista CO (SNDG03) and provide service to the new Mira Mesa housing development.

DMS-100 Host and Lucent 5ESS

SAN MARCOS

Type: Suburban

Newly reconstructed CO.

SAN YSIDRO

Type: Urban

San Ysidro

Old Exchanges: GArden 5 (425), GArden 8 (428)

SANTEE

Old Exchanges: HIlltop (44)

VALLEY CENTER

Old Exchanges: RIngland (74)

VISTA

Type: Suburban

Old Exchanges: LOngwood (56)

WARNER SPRINGS

Small remote switch serving rural northeast San Diego County.