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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.telecom
Subject: Re: Q: reporting (or not) your hardware to the TELCO ?!]
Message-ID: <312@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 20:51:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  2 20:51:29 1987
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Summary: Pacific Bell doesn't care


About a year ago, I got to feeling guilty with all the equipment on my
one phone line (4 phones, answering machine, modem), and wondered whether
suddently things might stop ringing, so I dutifully wrote down all the RENs,
serial numbers, etc., and called up Pacific Bell.

The fellow who answered my call was rather surprised when I told him why I
was calling.  He chuckled and replied that Pac Bell's equipment doesn't care
about what you've got on your line, so their people don't care either.

I never got to rattle off my list of RENs.

-- 
Bob Weissman
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