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From: sb@gmeeca.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V8 #68
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Date: 19 Apr 88 13:31:56 GMT
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There is a federal investigation of the phone  companies  that  service  hotels
etc.  These phone companies provide operators and very  little  else.  Even  if
you use MCI from a hotel, they tack on an incredible service charge (like  $21.
for a call that normally costs $4.00).  Are these third-party operator services
one and the same as the services that support COCOTs?  If this is either  true,
or if there should be an investigation, this present comittee (meeting  out  of
Wash. DC presently investigating about 12 companies), should be informed of the
wrong doings.

					--Bradley

P.S.  I live in MI, so we are a little behind the times here and do NOT have 
      COCOTS as prominantly as elsewhere.