Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!orc!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: monty@sunne.east.sun.com (Monty Solomon - Temp Consultant) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: COCOTs, FCC, DPU, etc Message-ID: <9955@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 20 Jul 90 19:49:14 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 14 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 501, Message 4 of 13 I wish to complain (loudly) about various local COCOTs practices of prohibiting access to long distance carriers via 10XXX or 950-10XX and of disabling the keypad after the call is completed. Who should I write to? The FCC? The local DPU? Both? What is the correct person/address to write to at the FCC? Does anyone have any useful boilerplate to use for such a letter? Thanks. # Monty Solomon /