Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: edell%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Richard Edell) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phonebook Distribution Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 89 18:59:59 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Richard Edell Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 31 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 338, message 6 of 7 In article WMartin@wsmr-simtel20. army.mil (William G. Martin) writes: >The recent mention (in the charging-for-DA-calls discussion) of phone >books in offices, or the lack thereof, leads me to post a query about >the issuing of telephone books. I have written Southwestern Bell about >this (twice -- they didn't reply until I sent a followup), but the >answer I received was not very specific and didn't tell me just what I >was trying to find out. [lots of stuff deleted] >Is a business customer entitled to one set per line, one per instrument, to >as many as they ask for without limit, or to what they ask for up to some >cutoff based on their usage? Or are they charged for each set of books >separately? How does the business customer situation change when they have >their own equipment versus leasing it? Since the BOC doesn't provide the >equipment any longer, if the book allocation is based on number of >instruments, how do they know what that is? A few years back (prior employer) I handled telephone equipment/services. One day Pacific Bell calls and asked my how many phone books do we need (for each of our buildings). I asked them how much does each cost (always watching costs) and was told that there was no cost (at least in the 50-100 book range we were talking about). I figured one per telephone station and ordered about 75 books. When the books arrived we had more than enough. I speculate that Pacific Bell doesn't care how many books they print because yellow page advertising rates are justified by the number of books -- more books more gross advertising revenue more profit? -Richard Edell edell@garnet.berkeley.edu