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From: hack@moxie.lonestar.org (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Slamming Technique?
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Date: 18 Dec 90 17:10:43 GMT
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After reading in netnews and the newspapers about the 'slamming' wars
going on, I felt a bit 'on the alert' when I got a phone call from
Sprint, which went something like this:

"Sir, do you know that your local telephone office is NOW providing
the capability of long distance service for you via U.S. Sprint?"

They have always provided options to all the carriers, but I figured
that if I said "yes", that would be taken as an affirmative to slam.
So, to make it *perfectly* clear, I said:

"No! I do not want U.S. Sprint service. I have AT&T service, and I DO
NOT want it changed. I DO NOT want U.S. Sprint service. I want AT&T
service".

"But, sir, do you know that your local telephone office is NOW
providing the capability of long distance service for you via U.S.
Sprint?"

"Did you hear me?"

"But, sir, do you know that your local telephone office is NOW
providing the capability of long distance service for you via U.S.
Sprint?"

"DID YOU HEAR ME!!! ?"

"Thank you." click.