Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: techwood!johnw@gatech.edu (John Wheeler) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why can't I choose AT&T? Message-ID: Date: 15 Jul 89 03:40:17 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: John Wheeler Organization: Turner Entertainment Networks Library; Atlanta Lines: 25 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 239, message 6 of 11 In article SKASS@drew.bitnet writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 231, message 5 of 8 > I'm about to move into housing built by my employer, who owns the >switch that my phone service will be on. According to everyone I've >asked, I will not have a choice of long distance carrier. Access >codes won't work (I'll get a busy signal after dialing 1-0, just like >I do now from my work phone), and the local company (NJ Bell) says >they can't install a phone for me. The apartment complex I live in has the same sort of arrangement. Instead of a Southern Bell line, my service comes from a company called Star*Touch, and they have an agreement with Telecom*USA (all these stars!). The switch simply dials an access number, pops in the appropriate access code, and you have long distance service. They simply have no way of accounting for any other carriers than the one they provide. You, as a user never get a REAL Southern Bell dialtone (even though they actually provide the lines) so you have no way of dialing 10+ codes. Of course you can use the surcharged Travel Card 800 numbers... -- Turner John Wheeler E N T E R T A I N M E N T ...!gatech!nanovx!techwood!johnw Networks Techwood Library * home of Superstation TBS * TNT * TBS Sports