Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: dwtamkin@chinet.uucp (David Tamkin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Greasing Skids at NYTel Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 17:13:45 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 35 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 504, message 2 of 5 A few weeks ago I submitted a question for a friend who was moving to New York City and who needed telephone service in a hurry despite the strike against BOC's that are subsidiaries of NYNEX. John Levine and Rob Warnock sent email suggesting that she get cellular service. She had just dumped her car phone service in Illinois but still had the equipment, so it was a strong possibility. At the time she was spending the early part of the week in Illinois and the latter part of the week plus the weekend in New York. The eventual results were as follows: Her second Thursday there she went to NYTel's offices and waited to be helped in person. They told her to send documentation of her professional need for immediate telephone service and told her their fax line number for sending it in. The next day she faxed NYTel a cover letter and a copy of her license and such. She went back to Illinois that Monday and returned to New York on Friday. There was dial tone on her line, and at first she thought that the previous tenant's service might never have been shut off, but the building's concierge confirmed that it had been. My friend called NYTel's business office to confirm that the service was hers and to find out the phone number. So within a week (it might have been sooner, since she was out of town and couldn't test the jacks) she had the service turned on. Getting her second line will take longer because the job requires wiring, but it can wait. PS: I managed to mistype "one's" for "ones" in my response to John Covert's submission on cellular service and the 312/708 split. Sorry. David Tamkin PO Box 813 Rosemont IL 60018-0813 (708)518'ORNY (312)693-0591 dwtamkin@chinet.chi.il.us BIX: dattier GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN CIS: 73720,1570