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From: hgp@houem.UUCP (#H.PAGE)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: ATT perceived as threatening?
Message-ID: <358@houem.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 17:56:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 17:56:23 1985
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>  What bothers me about this whole thing is the assumed
>  intelligence level of the "average" telephone user.
>  
>  I mean, how difficult is it to understand the following 
>  sentence:
>  
>  "You will soon be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to change
>  the company providing your long distance service--if you don't indicate a 
>  choice, you may have your service changed anyway."
>  
>  I know the average consumer CAN be pretty ridiculous at times
>  (even me :-)), but you'd have to be moronic to not understand
>  the personal IMPLICATIONS of the industry's changes.  The REASONS 
>  for the changes I'll leave to the lawyers and politicians (They
>  can HAVE them!)
>  
>  Reminds me of the article/editorial I read last weekend.  It seems
>  some company (Del Monte?) got a lot of flack for removing the heating
>  instructions from their cans of corn.  Consumers were confused.  How 
>  difficult could it possibly be?  "Place corn in pan. Heat"
>  
>  				Sheeeeeeesh!
>  			
>  				Scott Berry


Seems to me that I read something somewhere which said that 1/2 of the
population of the United States is not aware of the breakup of AT&T.


Howard G. Page
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