Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Is Rochester Telephone Also a Long Distance Carrier? Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 91 00:51:25 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Daily Nebraskan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lines: 31 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 172, Message 6 of 9 In cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes: > On two pay phones in Newark, Delaware, I have discovered that the > default long-distance carrier is listed as RCI Corp., 180 So. Clinton > Ave., Rochester, NY 14646, telephone 800-836-8080. The zipcode turns > out to be the same as Rochester Telephone Corp. Correct me if I'm wrong, but when Judge Greene barred Baby Bells from ever providing long-distance service, he did *not* mention the independent local carriers. As a result, there's nothing to stop such a local carrier from operating a long-distance division. Here in Lincoln, Neb., our local carrier (Lincoln Telephone) operates Lincoln Telephone Long Distance and promotes it pretty heavily. Of course, Lincoln Telephone *was* one of the first local companies to be successfully sued for blocking a third-party carrier. I believe it was MCI and its "Execuline" or "Executone" -- heck, Execu-SOMETHING -- back in the early 1980s. (For what it's worth, Lincoln Telephone has informally dropped the "& Tele- graph" from its name in most correspondence, but its official name still includes it. We call LT&T, alternatively, "Let's Try and Talk" or "Lincoln Tinkertoy.") Michael Ho, University of Nebraska Internet: ho@hoss.unl.edu Disclaimer: Views expressed within are purely personal and should not be applied to the Daily Nebraskan or any university department.