Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!netsys!vector!nobody From: finn@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Andy Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Ripped off by the long distance carrier Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 89 07:21:42 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 42, message 1 On a recent trip to Connecticut, I made several phone calls from my hotel, charging them to a calling card. I didn't think to ask which long distance carrier would be used. (Yes, I should have known better). I got my phone bill today. One of the calls would have cost about $6 if I had placed it through an AT&T or Sprint operator -- and even less if I had dialed it directly. Telesphere/T.E.N. charged me $18.45. Do I have any recourse? What happens if I tell my local telephone company that I won't pay that portion of the bill? (They are billing me "as a service to Telesphere"). For that matter, does anyone know the address of the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission? -- Live justly, love gently, walk humbly. Andy Behrens andyb@coat.uucp internet: andyb%coat@dartmouth.edu uucp: {harvard,decvax}!dartvax!coat!andyb