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From: jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM)
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Subject: Re: Horror Stories
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Date: 16 Jun 87 17:03:04 GMT
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| |What is wrong with a hotel allowing access to only one carrier?
| |Or with a hotel not even HAVING any phone service?  (The latter
| |may be a good selling feature!)  If a hotel customer doesn't like
| |what the hotel provides, he can always find another hotel.
| |								...Keith
| 
| ||Because only having one carrier may be a violation of federal
| ||regulation. Specifically, anti-trust laws and the like.
| 
| I agree with Keith.  This is the same "the world owes me a living"
| mentality that demands the highest of quality from a faceless "Ma
| Bell" while resisting any increases in cost.  It is best exemplified
| by the socialist fools at Consumer Reports.  If the hotel can choose
| who will provide mattresses, room TVs, etc why not telephone service?
| If they abuse the customers they will lose business.  Makes sense to 
| me!
| +HECTOR+
| -------

But it's the only room available within 10 miles of the meeting,
using their carrier means the call is on your hotel bill, your
company provides you with a credit card for a different carrier, and
your company won't pay for calls made on another carrier and charged
to your hotel bill.  And there's no place to put the T1100+ if you
try to use the pay phone for E-mail.
-- 

John Carter
AT&T Communications - Atlanta RWC
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(The above views are my very own. How dare you question them? :-)