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From: bcsaic!carroll@cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Running Your Own Long Distance Company
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Date: 14 Dec 90 18:40:28 GMT
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In article <15114@accuvax.nwu.edu> phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip
Miller) writes:

>The {St. Louis Post Dispatch} this morning carries a story about
>William Outten, the owner of an answering service in surburban St.
>Louis who is now offering "free" long distance calls from Jefferson
>county into St. Louis.

	An acquaintance of ours who is well known in the Seattle area
as a telecom entrepreneur was recently unsuccessful in his efforts to
lobby the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission for
permission to operate this sort of business.

	I don't know the details. My wife speaks to this fellow much
more often than I do, and she's not well versed in the technology.


Jeff Carroll   carroll@atc.boeing.com