Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 19:05:59 -0700 From: David Gast Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Reusing Numbers After Just One Day 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 475, Message 3 of 9 Lines: 16 I called a friend of mine who lived in one of the dorms at UCLA last school year the other night. I called on Sunday and the quarter ended on Friday so I expected to get an intercept like "The number you dialed is not in service ..." and I was hoping "the new number is ..." Instead I got connected to new tenants. I am not sure if it was the same room number, but it was the same dorm (I asked). Less than one business day is way too quick in my opinion. The only reasonable explanation would be that the old tenants forgot to cancel their phone service or that GTE was slow in processing it. Otherwise it is substandard service from our beloved GTE. David