Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: "Intercom Plus" by Pacific Bell Message-ID: <1755@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 2 Dec 89 21:02:24 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 546, message 3 of 4 In article , apple!netcom!edg@ ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) writes: > Last month, my phone bill advertised a little service called Intercom > Plus. Being the phone junkie I am, I called up the business office > and ordered it right up. Leave it to Pac*Bell to sell its ringback codes to the public and then have to gall to refer to it as "advanced" service. How long is Pac*Bell going to sell bits and pieces of Centrex service to the residential and small business public while avoiding the necessary upgrades to offer really state-of-the-art telephone service? They could have offered "Intercom Plus" over twenty years ago when they installed my CO switch. It took them this long to come up with this marketing ploy? I had better shut up before the Phone Police discover that I have more than a black rotary dial phone in my house. The CPUC has made it quite clear that this as much as anyone really needs. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !