Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!telecom-request From: root@surya.uucp (The unknown Florentine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: An HONEST PacBell Survey About CLID Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 20:07:13 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Sunshine in a box Lines: 29 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 255, Message 10 of 11 A few days ago I received a call from a survey firm asking me if I would be willing to fill out a survey if they sent it to me with a check for $5 (sound somewhat familiar?) They said PacBell had hired them (a marketing firm) to do this survey. I actually agreed to do this, figuring I would actually be getting a check that authorized me to be slammed, and a hokey survey extolling a LD carrier. Well I was wrong. They sent a survey mostly about CLID and a few other potential services and a crisp clean $5 bill. Now the survey asks a lot of questions about where I buy telecom products and, in various fashions about what I would think about buying a CLID phone from Pacbell, leasing it from PACBELL, or buying a "Pacbell CERTIFIED or APPROVED phone" elsewhere. {I thought that the Bells could no longer do that type of business.} The phones were all in the $100 - 180 price range, the separate CLID boxes were $40 - 60. They also ask some questions that I thought were none of their damned business, and told them so. It was also interesting to note that the poll (and the "informative brochure") did not mention CLID blocking or BLocked Call blocking. Sounds like PACBELL has no intent to provide these.