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From: bruner@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Bruner)
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Subject: Thank You For Using Vista United
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Date: 8 Feb 90 14:57:38 GMT
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Last week my (new) wife and I were at Disney World in Florida.  Disney
apparently has their own telephone company.  On a couple of occasions
I placed some long-distance calls from our hotel room.  There was no
mention of their long-distance carrier in any hotel literature, so I
dialed 0+NPA+NXX-XXXX.  There was a ringing tone, which was "answered"
by a "ka-bong", to which I entered my calling card number.  After a
pause, it said "thank you for using Vista United."  At this point I
hung up and tried 10288+0+, but that gave me a fast busy, so I
called the front desk and asked what the long distance carrier was.

They told me it was AT&T, so I asked them why it mentioned Vista
United.  "Oh, that's the company which provides local service, just
like Illinois Bell."  I was somewhat dubious of this, but I decided to
go for it anyway.  By next month I should know whether I really had
AT&T or whether an unpleasant surprise will be lurking in a future
bill.

I suppose that I should have placed the long-distance calls from the
AT&T exhibit in Epcot Center.


John Bruner	Center for Supercomputing R&D, University of Illinois
	bruner@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu	(217) 244-4476