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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Telecommunications and the Phone Company
Message-ID: <421@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 28-Dec-83 22:30:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 28 22:30:38 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Dec-83 01:28:47 EST
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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New England Telephone already gleefully asks the hapless consumers
whether they own their own phones, and asks them to verify that the
phone is working correctly.  It turns out that it isn't quite as much
of a problem to do this in most households which have several phones
(or in the case of many of us, more than one phone line.)

Even if there isn't any way to verify this, the problem, as you said,
is usually in the phone line itself, and calling the local repair
office generally brings a threat of a $45 flat fee if a house call
turn out to be unnecessary, followed by the phone company fixing the
line without any local intervention.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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