Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: carroll1!dtroup@uunet.uu.net (Dave Troup) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: In Defense of GTE and their Apparatus Message-ID: Date: 13 Sep 89 20:06:57 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Dave Troup Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI Lines: 13 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 377, message 1 of 9 One of the interesting operations that GTE participates in when you have not paid your phone bill is to NOT disconnect your line, but rather call block OUTGOING calls...except 800's. When they did this to myself, I didnt care because I almost never made any local calls...one call to the Sprint # or AT&T Conference and I could make all the lond distance calls just like usual. After a couple months of this, I finally got enough $$ to pay my bill. Local service wasnt connected for ANOTHER 3 WEEKS...but was I bothered? Nope. Thanks GTE :) "We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, knowin' that ain't allowed"__ _______ _______________ |David C. Troup / Surf Rat _______)(______ | |dtroup@carroll1.cc.edu : mail ______________________________|414-524-6809____________________________