Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site erisun.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!enea!erix!erisun!leif From: leif@erisun.UUCP (Leif Samuelsson) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Save 50% on Long-Distance Phone Bills Message-ID: <322@erisun.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 22:38:47 EST Article-I.D.: erisun.322 Posted: Tue Apr 16 22:38:47 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Apr-85 05:28:15 EST References: <136@ncvet.UUCP> <1281@drusd.UUCP> Reply-To: leif@erisun.UUCP (Leif Samuelsson) Organization: Ericsson Information Systems, Sundbyberg, Sweden Lines: 22 In article <1281@drusd.UUCP> lrd@drusd.UUCP writes: > If this is meant to be informative (telling the user community that there > is a lower cost alternative to AT&T), it is an insult to our intelligence; > I doubt that there is even one net reader who is not aware of the existence > of MCI as well as a dozen or more alternative carriers. Ok, so what is this MCI thing anyway? In this country, the state handles the telephone network. They do it well enough to give us the lowest rates in the world. Or so they say... Posting ads like that around here might even be against the law! Oh yeah, I just remembered. MCI is the company that bought a few Ericsson exchanges last year. Leif Samuelsson Ericsson Information Systems AB ..mcvax!enea!erix!erisun!leif Advanced Workstations Division S-172 93 SUNDBYBERG 59 19 N / 17 57 E SWEDEN