Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!agate!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T's Dream-On Ad Campaign Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 08:53:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 33 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 239, Message 4 of 9 "Randal L. Schwartz" writes: > GTE here in the Northwest has "select your own 1+ carrier", but no > 10XXX dialing. I won't switch from AT&T because of that. I think that most people, if faced with the prospect of having to select not only a default carrier but the ONLY carrier, would select AT&T. The "big outage" and all the tapdancing by the OCCs notwithstanding, AT&T is still THE most reliable carrier and has the most services available. AT&T is the one carrier, in my experience, that can and will connect you to repair service of another LEC in another area. AT&T still operates its network as if it was the only company providing the nation's long distance service. But while I have cheers for AT&T, GTE gets my jeers. Leave it to GTE to PARTIALLY implement FGD. There is no ambiguity about it: 10XXX dialing is an intregal part of the Feature Group D specification. Most of the people I know or work with use AT&T as PIC and have accounts with other companies using 10XXX. A system that denys 10XXX should not call itself "equal access". > I'd really hate to be stuck on a busy traffic day when some > undercapicitized carrier is out of lines and not be able to let Ma > Bell handle the call. Or the victim of a long distance company that uses Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-ways such that every train accident shuts down the service for miles around. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !