Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!killer!vector!nobody From: neves@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David M. Neves) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Ripped off by the long distance carrier Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 89 20:14:58 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 19 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 53, message 6 In article finn@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Andy Behrens) writes: >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). ... >Do I have any recourse? ... Last month a customer of a motel took the motel to small claims court because the phone part of her bill was 5 times the AT&T rates. She was not told that there would be an outrageous surcharge and the Judge, who was outraged at the ripoff, ruled in her favor. By the way, it was Judge Wapner of the People's Court. ;David Neves, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison ;Usenet: {rutgers,ucbvax}!uwvax!neves ;Arpanet: neves@cs.wisc.edu