Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: mitel!spock!grayt@uunet.uu.net (Tom Gray) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: A New Way to Get Slammed Message-ID: <13597@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 15 Oct 90 16:23:32 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Tom Gray Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada. Lines: 22 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 739, Message 12 of 14 In article <13502@accuvax.nwu.edu> portal!cup.portal.com! John_David_Galt writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 733, Message 4 of 11 >John Higdon (john@bovine.att.com) writes: >I saw the same news stories I think you did, but I read them more >carefully. No one got service they hadn't asked for, but lots of Bell Canada was doing just that putting unordered custom calling features on people's lines. They were doing it across whole office code blocks. They said tat they were offering a free sample of their service whic of course wouldn't be in anyway deleterious to the customer. One woman was operating a small consulting business from her home. Call waiting was applied to her line without her permission. Customers were calling her line and recieving continuois ringing Previously if she had been on the line with a customer, other customers received busy. She received many queries as to whether she was still in business.