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From: yazz@prodnet.la.locus.com (Bob Yazz)
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Subject: You Can Help AT&T Sue the COCOT SOB's
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Date: 7 Feb 91 03:23:01 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 98, Message 14 of 14


I ran into a new pair of COCOT's the other day that said "AT&T is the
carrier" very promininently.  No one here will be shocked that when I
dialed 0 + the long distance number, the electronic voice said
"Telesphere".  10288 didn't work, of course.

I called AT&T at 800/222-0300 and started out with "I'd like to report
an act of fraud against AT&T."  The woman I spoke with was happy to
hear from me.  She was in NJ and said that as of the first of the year
it was illegal for a payphone to deny you your choice of long distance
carriers.  People had come down from Pennsylvania [I might have the
two states reversed here] to tell everyone in her office about the
pending lawsuit that AT&T was filing, so it seemed serious to her.
She took all the information I could give her.

It's great to see someone with big legal guns going after the COCOT
slimeys.  Anyone have any confirming stories?


Bob Yazz --  yazz@lccsd.sd.locus.com