Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Brian Gordon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Can I Be Charged to Have My Number Not Listed? Message-ID: <3475@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 2 Feb 90 19:11:22 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 36 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 72, message 8 of 16 Having recently read in this Digest that, at least in CA, "The Phone Company" does not charge for having a second line unlisted if the first line (same name/address) is listed, I called Pacific Bell to tell them to stop charging me $0.30/month for the "service". The service representative tells me I've got it backwards -- if your first line is unlisted (for a monthly fee) and you want a second line also unlisted, THEN the second line is free. Thus, according to one PacBell spokesperson, the first unlisted line (out of any number) is charged, and subsequent ones are not. Who is correct? Specifically, if I read the Digest properly and the second line should not be charged (first line listed normally), does someone have the suitable PUC directive/ruling/regulation/whatever reference to cite in my letter to PacBell? +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Brian G. Gordon briang@Corp.Sun.COM (if you trust exotic mailers) | | ...!sun!briangordon (if you route it yourself) | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ [Moderator's Note: I believe the rule is (as it is here in IBT-land) that one paid-for non-pub OR one free listing by default is satisfactory for the purpose of waiving further non-pub fees. That is, if there is *some number* for DA to give out for you, then you have met the requirements, since the 'aggravation factor', as we used to call it is mitigated. DA has something positive to tell callers about you. Likewise, if you pay once to be non-pub, then there are no further charges; after all, is DA supposed to tell the caller you are non-pub at two numbers or more numbers? If they insist on charging for non-pub when you are listed at least once, then insist to them that each time someone calls DA, you want *two recitations*; one giving your number and the second announcing "at the customer's request, the number is not part of our records, etc..." PT]