Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 19 May 91 10:36:02 PDT From: cdp!erhall@labrea.stanford.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Strange AT&T Bill Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 377, Message 6 of 9 Lines: 35 Sean E. Williams writes: > I was talking to a friend about her long distance service a few days > ago (being that I sell MCI and all) and she told me that a relative of > hers was using AT&T. > Of course, this didn't shock me one bit. Thousands of people use > AT&T. But then she went on to tell me that this relative was being > billed, on her AT&T page, $40.00 every two or three months (she wasn't > sure of the frequency.) No doubt the person could be better described as "an older relative" and is still renting her phones (and phone-related equipment). It seems that the equipment rental from the local Bell companies was moved to AT&T during the breakup. After my mother's death last year I found a similar, but less expensive (apx. $15), charge included every three months in her Michigan Bell bills. I called AT&T (number included on the statement) and found out that the charge was for her old, black, rotary-dial phone and for an external ringer. I remember that external bell being in the basement of the house I grew up in. AT&T was very nice about closing out the rental. I explained I couldn't return the phone to her local AT&T Phone Store during weekdays. So they sent a large envelope to my Chicago address and I returned the phone via US Mail. They didn't force me to return the basement ringer after I explained that my parents had sold that house ten years ago! Earl Hall | via PeaceNet: | GEnie: ERHALL Chicago IL | cdp!erhall@labrea.stanford.edu | +1 312 685 9735