Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!telecom-request From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T's Dream-On Ad Campaign Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 13:04:22 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: A corner of our bedroom Lines: 19 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 214, Message 4 of 4 TELECOM Moderator Notes: > [Moderator's Note: I think AT&T's strategy may well be to keep > promoting 10288, getting everyone primed up for it, then start suing > on a case by case basis those COCOT operators who refuse to allow it. > AT&T will of course have the full authority of the FCC behind them in > any such suits they choose to bring. PAT] In the meantime they're continuing to lose money from the many consumers, like me, who carry around a FONcard (or MCI card or whatever) because AT&T refuses to sell us a service we need. Classic AT&T marketing. If it wasn't the fact that they *owned* the phone service to begin with, it would have gone the way of their computer systems division by now. peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com