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From: cc100aa%prism@gatech.edu (Ray Spalding)
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Subject: Re: Customized Telephone Numbers
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Date: 28 May 90 20:05:52 GMT
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In article <8328@accuvax.nwu.edu> David Lesher <wb8foz@mthvax.cs.
miami.edu> writes:

>Alas, this seems to be another area where the LEC's get starry-eyed
>and see:
>		Revenue Source!
>		Revenue Source!

Indeed.  On page 18 of the Atlanta directory, titled "Prices of
Services", it says in part:

	Stylist(R) Service:  Your phone number can "spell"
	a word by using the letters that correspond
	to your phone number...............$2.50 per month

And, my experience has been that if you don't request this service,
you get a number with zeros and/or ones in it -- they're reserving the
"lettered" digits for people who are willing to pay for them.


Ray Spalding, Office of Computing Services
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0275
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