Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: ab4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew Boardman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: US Sprint Code-abuse Policies Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 89 09:34:54 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Columbia University Lines: 20 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 258, message 9 of 9 X-GATEWAY-WARNING: original 'Date' value too old for posting X-Original-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 11:59:34 EDT In article Patrick wrote: >[...] And how does AT&T handle fraud? Certainly not by red-lining certain >parts of cities where fraud is prevalent, as Sprint has done with NY Port >Authority or Grand Central. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If this is indeed still the case, it is exceptionally funny, as "US Sprint PublicFON Service" (or something very close to that, certainly the Sprint we all know and love) is the default carrier for all public phones in and around Grand Central. (And in the subway below, too.) If I can dig up a Sprint card I'll give it a try and see if they're still blocked. >AT&T is running some ads in Chicago right now which say it all: "You've >tried all the rest -- now come back home to the best." For about a week and a half, fairly recently, they had a series of full-page ads on the back of the first section of the NY Times. Some were very amusing; they all (rightly, IMHO) extolled the virtues of AT&T or explained 10XXX codes and such. /a