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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Victims of Equal Access (?)
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 14:02:11 EST
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> Sanjay Tikku, just down the hall (san@peora.UUCP) writes:
> I haven't had any problems with equal access the way it is implemented
> here.

Well, I have (see my previous message); so, after reading your comment, I
called Sprint's business office.  Lo and behold, Sprint doesn't even
HAVE residential service in Orlando; so the story told to me by the
service representative month after month has been fictional.

So, I signed up with MicroTel.  We'll see how that works.  (Incidentally,
in the process I found out the explanation for the discrepancy in our two
postings; in my area they won't have equal access until July 15th.)

There has been considerable discussion in fa.telecom on the subject of
equal access; it appears that some companies have not found it as profitable
as they had anticipated, since apparently there are higher charges for equal
access compared to the old way (i.e., charges to the company offering the
service for access to the network) in order to get the higher quality lines
that are characteristic of AT&T, and this (according to the assertions made
in fa.telecom) has led to a slowdown in the availability of service.  Maybe
that's part of it too.

Personally, I hope it all works out.  It would be a bad thing if, after
going through all the disarray of divestiture, we ended up with nothing new
at all in the long run.  Then they'd have to regulate AT&T again, and it
would be hard to get it all back together...
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