Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular service Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 89 04:20:45 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 26 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 90, message 5 of 8 In article , decvax!decwrl!apple!zygot!john @ucbvax.berkeley.edu (John Higdon) writes: > With all of the hoopla that PacTel Cellular is generating over its > installation of its "new digital equipment", some questions must be > raised. Having recently visited the LA area as a roamer from GTE > Mobilnet, San Francisco, it seems that the good people of southern > California are being taken for a ride. > > PacTel Cellular may be the only cellular operator in the country that > charges the moment you hit the s(p)end button, whether the call is > answered or not.... Nynex mobile service, the wireline carrier here in the New York City CGSA, also charges air time for incomplete calls. But the local non-wireline carrier (MetroOne) only charges for completed calls, and only charges from when the called party answers. Ironically, the major shareholder in MetroOne appears to be Pacific Telesys! Does that mean that we really have two "wireline" cellular carriers here? -- Dave Levenson Westmark, Inc. The Man in the Mooney Warren, NJ USA {rutgers | att}!westmark!dave