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From: MYERSTON@KL.SRI.COM (HECTOR MYERSTON)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: A Modest Proposal
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Date: 1 Feb 89 18:59:17 GMT
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	It seems to me that:

	(1) Many people want to use AT&T Calling Cards from various
            places but cannot
	(2) AT&T is losing revenue because of (1)

	It does not take an MBA to figure out that it would be the
advantage of both frustrated users and AT&T if a universal,
non-blockable means of dialing an AT&T operator existed.  How?,
a Local Exchange Number ala FG A?, a 950- FG-D number?,  800 ?,
900?. ??????

	The problem is not just that some AOS are crooks, it is also
that AT&T is as imaginative in its services as the water company.

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