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From: py21%sdcc12@UCSD.EDU (Akkana)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Your Long Distance Carrier?
Message-ID: <982@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 3 Mar 88 22:14:55 GMT
References: <8802260130.AA09450@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <8802281957.AA17753@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Keywords: Long Distance Carriers
Summary: PacBell seems to have their act together
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In article <8802281957.AA17753@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, ole@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Ole Jacobsen) writes:
> happening. The 10xxx is still a little known feature, billing is real
> strange (often delayed by months on your BOC bill), and the carriers

Interesting -- I didn't have any trouble getting this info from PacBell
when I signed up for service here in San Diego (surprising after dealing
with ConTel in New Mexico, who said "Equal Access?  What's that?  You
must mean three-way calling, here's a brochure describing that feature").
When I said I wasn't sure what carrier I wanted (not having had experience
with any but Sprint and AT&T, both of whom I was pretty sure I didn't
want), she told me that I could put off specifying the carrier and use
10xxx dialing in the meantime.  A list of carriers arrived in the mail
two days later.  I haven't noticed any delay on 10xxx billing here,
either (at least on the MCI calls).

> are confused. The other day I got a call from a curious carrier who
> had noticed that I was using them on and off, informing me that I
> could sign up and stop "testing" their service. When I explained that
> I was not "testing" their service he appeared quite perplexed.

There do seem to be billing problems -- someone from Allnet keeps
calling my number asking why we've been using their service without
subscribing and apparently wanting to tell us to stop (I think, but
they haven't managed to catch me at home yet).  Perhaps all they want
to do is solicit my subscription to get me to stop "testing".  I may
subscribe service anyway, since it's the only one I've found so far
which has decent line quality (Sprint used to be really good before
equal access, but now I can't even understand voices on it -- I hear
other people on the line more loudly than I do the person who is
supposed to be calling me on Sprint).


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