Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request
From: mao@postgres.berkeley.edu (Mike Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Why Did You Choose Your LD Carrier?
Message-ID: <14224@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 17:22:34 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 780, Message 9 of 13


I heard an amusing anecdote at lunch the other day from the principal,
who'll remain nameless since it doesn't matter very much...

A well-known Unix researcher here at UC Berkeley recently switched
from AT&T to MCI.  He got a telephone call from AT&T telemarketing
types soon afterwards.  They wanted to know why he had switched.  His
answer: "You charge too much for Unix."

Who knows ... If everyone who switches carriers tells them that, we
may drop the price within the reach of individuals.


Mike Olson, UC Berkeley, mao@postgres.Berkeley.EDU