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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: MCI as Slamming King
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Date: 27 Sep 90 17:36:59 GMT
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After I had previously written this:

DT> But there are telqi who will accept with blind faith the mag tapes
DT> that the IECs send them, input them, and slam away, and there are
DT> telqi who will examine the data on those tapes and check records first
DT> to see if they have received such a request from the customer.

Jon Baker challenged me in volume 10, issue 681:

JB> Name one.  From everything I've read/heard/experienced, no telco
JB> verifies the allegedly-required written record except in cases of
JB> customer complaint.  And, MCI rarely produces the written record,
JB> claiming that they 'sent the card out to the customer for signature,
JB> but never got it back'.

In a tale I've told many times here, MCI tried several times to slam
my parents' Illinois Bell service and my Central Telephone service.
Central Telephone never honored MCI's mag tape but phoned me for
confirmation both times.  Both times, of course, I denied it, and on
neither occasion did they make the switch.

So you want me to name one?  Central Telephone Company, 2004 Miner
Street, Des Plaines, Illinois 60016; +1 708 391 6000.  In every
slamming complaint posted to this Digest that named the obeying telco,
said compliant local utility was a Bell company.  No one has yet, as
far as I've noticed, submitted "my independent telco let a long-
distance carrier slam me" nor "my Bell telco stymied a slamming
attempt on me."


David Tamkin  Box 7002  Des Plaines IL  60018-7002  708 518 6769  312 693 0591
MCI Mail: 426-1818  GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN  CIS: 73720,1570   dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com