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From: NBaheti.es@XEROX.COM
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Subject: Pac-Tel ESS upgrades
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Date: Thu, 28-Aug-86 16:15:39 EDT
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     I called my Pac-Tel office [again] to ask about when my second
phone line [213-325-xxxx] would be upgraded to ESS.  Reply: maybe
easly next year, maybe and more probably never.  Great!  I am not in a
rural area either and yet I can't use IDDD, Easy Access, or any of the
special features getting advertised down here like Call-Waiting,
Call-Forwarding, Speed-Calling, Three-Way, et cetera ad naseum in
finium.

     I then thought that I could get my phone number changed (although
VERY inconvenient, it may be worth it).  I can, she said, if I was
willing to PAY something like $20 for it.  I asked if I wanted one of
those special features how would I get it.  Reply: we would change
your number to an ESS line for free [give you any ideas, guys?].

     Barring Easy Access do any of the ALDS companies offer an
alternate way of using their services other than choosing them as your
primary LDC?  Something like a generic 950-port that lets you dial out
and charges the line you are using [or is that too far-fetched?]?

--Arun Baheti
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