Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: egs@u-word.dallas.tx.us (Eric Schnoebelen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Atlanta Company Offers Residential 800 service Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 89 16:00:16 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: egs@u-word.uucp Organization: John W. Bridges & Associates, Inc., Lewisville, Tx. Lines: 33 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 190, message 4 of 7 In article gould@pilot.njin.net (Brian Jay Gould) writes: - In article , klb@lzaz.att.com (K. - BLATTER) writes: ->> BTW, when I called Telecom USA I could barely hear the person at the ->> other end. It was a very poor connection. I don't know if they are using ->> their own 800 numbers for business purposes. -> According to the TELECOM Digest Guide to North American Area Codes dated -> Jan 19, 1989 800-476 is "owned" (if that's the proper term) by Teleconnect. - Yes Kevin, Telecom*USA is the parent company to Teleconnect (as well as - a half dozen or more other carriers. In fact, I believe that - Telecom*USA is the fourth largest long distance carrier in the country. - If your guide is more than three weeks old, it is out of date. Actually, according to my information, Telecom*USA was formed by the merger of Teleconnect ( of Cedar Rapids, Iowa ) and SouthernNet ( of Atlanta, Ga. ) early this year ( I seem to remember hearing about it in January. ) Telecom*USA is the fourth largest carrier in the United States, but still quite a distance behind number three, US Sprint. The Telecom*USA network is basically divided into two portions, the old Teleconnect network in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri, and the old SouthernNet network in the southeast. -- Eric Schnoebelen, JBA Incorporated, Lewisville, Tx. egs@u-word.dallas.tx.us ...!killer!u-word!egs Real Programmers: Real Programmers have trouble suppressing homicidal tendencies when asked, "Are you sure?"