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From: eci386!jmm@uunet.uu.net (John Macdonald)
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Subject: Slam Dunk (Was: MCI as Slamming King)
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Date: 17 Sep 90 08:29:45 GMT
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In article <12123@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Higdon <john@bovine.ati.com> writes:

|So how 'bout it? From all accounts MCI does seem to be the slamming
|king. I have, on several occasions, had to "clean off" MCI as the
|default carrier on some of my clients' trunks. Associates of mine
|report the same. So while Sprint is exhorting potential customers to
|switch from AT&T, MCI is doing it for them whether they like it or
|not.

It would seem to me that any company that changes service without
written authorization is opening itself to a charge of *fraud*,
particularily if it is a slam dunk and there is no oral authorization
either.

Instigating criminal proceedings against MCI might reduce the
frequency of this sort of abuse.


John Macdonald
  jmm@eci386