Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: David Dodell Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: AT&T Advertisement is Stupid Message-ID: <2632@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 5 Jan 90 03:48:18 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 9, message 4 of 8 I'm sure other members of the conference have seen the recent AT&T ad showing some guy at a telephone both trying to call Phoenix but getting Fuji instead. Checking with AT&T, the country code to Fuji is 679, while Phoenix is area code 602 ... on top of this you need to dial 011 to get international access. I figure that this ad is just plain stupid, since if someone can't dial a number correctly, it has nothing to do with the carrier they are using. The ad implies otherwise. Oh well, advertising at its finest. David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona uucp: {gatech, ames, rutgers}!ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!ddodell Bitnet: ATW1H @ ASUACAD FidoNet=> 1:114/15 Internet: ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org