Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!bu.edu!telecom-request From: vermont!schwartz@uunet.uu.net (S. H. Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: FCC Proposed Rule Changes; Equal Access Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 13:49:23 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: "S. H. Schwartz" Organization: Expert Systems Lab., NYNEX Sci. and Tech., White Plains NY Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 143, Message 6 of 10 In article Jim Gottlieb writes: > AT&T must get a nationwide 950 or 800 number if it wishes that its > customers be able to use AT&T long distance from any telephone. ... as long as it isn't a COCOT. One such animal in Boston tried to take $4.00 from me for an 800 number. Granted, it's an exception -- most phones of any gender permit free 800 calls -- but there's nothing to stop a COCOT-meister from inventing his own charges. S. H. Schwartz schwartz@nynexst.com Expert Systems Laboratory 914-683-2960 NYNEX Science and Technology Center White Plains, NY 10604 [Moderator's Note: I don't see why AT&T has to get an 800 number. The rules established for this plainly call for equal access via 10xxx, and thus far, AT&T has been insisting everyone follow the rules. I've heard all the arguments about fraud and difficulty in billing 10xxx calls, but that is the COCOT owner's problem ... not AT&T's. PAT]