Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Jack.Winslade@f666.n285.z1.fidonet.org (Jack Winslade) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: *Long* Phone Calls -- What Does Ma Think? Message-ID: <15320@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 8 Dec 90 04:13:20 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: jack.winslade@f666.n285.z1.fidonet.org Organization: DRBBS Technical BBS, Omaha, Ne. 402-896-3537 Lines: 34 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 873, Message 5 of 9 In a message of <30 Nov 90 18:30:56>, John Higdon writes: >Charles "Chip" Roberson writes: >> but in Raleigh, every time this happens the phone company >> disconnects his line and charges him $35 to reconnect his line. >> Is this standard practice for phone companies to react so strongly to >> off-hook lines? >No, it is not. And there is absolutely no reason, given any switch >other than SXS to behave in this manner. It is a scam to increase >revenue and nothing else. AAAAAArrrrgh! I'm certainly glad they do not do that here. Not only do I have the BBS set to 'busy out' during the daily maintenance 'batch' processes, our cats have been known to knoch the receiver of the voice phone off the hook and onto the floor. Sometimes we'll hear the 'clanking' and hang it up, but it's been off hook overnight. I wonder if the telco in Raleigh would tromp on that ?? Also, one time when we had a temporary line at our just-finished house, we found that the former user of that number received all kinds of calls (long distance, from the sounds) at all hours. The first night we had that, we had to take the phone off hook to get some sleep. I wonder if that telco has the [fill in an anatomic part, 'guts' will suffice] to charge $35 for that ?? Good Day! JSW --- Through FidoNet gateway node 1:16/390 Jack.Winslade@f666.n285.z1.fidonet.org