Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request From: rborow@bcm1a09.attmail.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Supreme Court: White Pages Not Copyrightable Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 19:27:50 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 14 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 276, Message 6 of 10 Jim Bubler wrote that a phone number once assigned belongs to a customer. While I am on his side, his statement isn't true. Telephone numbers remain the property of telco and can be changed at their whim, etc. Sorry, Jim, but we basically have no rights, so to speak, when it comes to "our" phone numbers. Randy Borow AT&T Communications Rolling Meadows, IL. [Moderator's Note: You are quite correct. Every phone book says it in these words, more or less, "Whenever, in the conduct of its business, the Company finds it desirable to change the number, etc ..." PAT]