Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!telecom-request From: emanuele@overlf.UUCP (Mark A. Emanuele) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: COCOT in Rural NJ Ripped Me Off Good! Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 18:06:30 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Overleaf Systems, Inc. Lines: 20 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 193, Message 4 of 13 I had to make a phone call while driving thru a rural area of South Jersey in the pine barrens. I stopped at the general store / Post Office an there was what looked like a United Tel Booth. I called a number 45 miles away within the same LATA. The Phone asked for: "Fifty Five Dollars and Thirty Five Cents Please". I tried the call again with 10288 and got a tone like a sieren. I then used my NJB IQ card, and I got a busy. When I got my NJB bill, there was an entry for TeleWi$e for $75.49 for a 45 second call (the one that I got a busy on!!! ). Needless to say I REFUSED to pay it! NJ BELL was helpful in the fact that they would not dunn me for the amount in question even though TeleWi$e refused to credit me. BTW NJ Bell told me if the COCOT operator won't connect me with a NJB operator to report the phone to the NJPUC. Mark A. Emanuele V.P. Engineering Overleaf, Inc. 218 Summit Ave Fords, NJ 08863 (908) 738-8486 emanuele@overlf.UUCP