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From: jak@talcott.UUCP (Joe Konstan)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Victims of Equal Access (?)
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Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 18:29:09 EST
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> 
> Agreeing that it may be considered unfair to "give" all
> those "free" customers to AT&T, I feel that the consumer should
> have the right not to have his service changed without his per-
> mission. The telephone company and the long distance carriers have
> been telling customers of the Equal Access and its implications.
> 
> Equal Access
> may help the quality of the other companies' lines, but would it
> be right if you were the "lucky" one to be assigned to one of the
> lower quality carriers?  What does the net feel about these politics?
> 
> 					Sunil Trivedi
> 					sunil@ut-ngp. {ARPA,UUCP}

First of all, *EVERYBODY* has the right to choose AT&T or any other 
company as their primary access company.  If that is what you want, mail
in a postcard and you will get it.  as to what should be done to those
who do not express a preference, I think that their first long distance
call should be channelled to an operator who would ask them to designate
a company.  If this is infeasible, then certainly the load should be
spread among the several comanies randomly.  If you really don't care,
then it won't affect you.  If you care, send in a postcard.

What I want to know is what is happening to some of the other services
that AT&T long distance provided.  How will a collect call be billed if
the caller and callee have different services?  What about different
types of calls (person to person, conference, etc.)?  Does anybody know
anything about this?

Mithrandir
jak@talcott.{UUCP,ARPA}