Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Kent Borg Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Advertisement is Stupid Message-ID: <2779@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 10 Jan 90 23:28:45 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Kent Borg Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA Lines: 24 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 20, message 2 of 9 In article <2632@accuvax.nwu.edu> ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell) writes: >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... Wow! I knew Fuji had their own blimp, and I knew there were a lot of big and powerful multinational corportions out there, but this is the first time I have heard a company having its own *country* code! I don't approve--maybe we should all start buying Kodak film in protest. Kent Borg lloyd!kent@husc6.harvard.edu or ...!husc6!lloyd!kent MacNet: kentborg H:(617) 776-6899 W:(617)426-3577 "The wall has been opened. One of the most insurmountable borders in Europe has become a German dance floor." -Christoph Hein, NYT Magazine, 17 Dec 1989