Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Sprint's Direct Marketing Tactics Message-ID: <4465@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 28 Feb 90 05:30:15 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows 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 130, Message 9 of 9 While over at my little office picking up some things, the phone rang. The caller asked to speak to the "business owner". I said, "You got him." It was a Sprint salesman who wanted to make sure I knew how much I could save by using Sprint. I told him that my office long distance bill was so small that it would not make any difference. Then he launched into a major diatribe about how "the reason AT&T failed during the earthquake was due to their antiquated network." Oh, did AT&T fail during the quake? I was unaware of that. I told him that I knew that AT&T was doing considerable network management to assure outgoing calling capability, but I was unaware that they had "failed". He told me that, no, indeed, Sprint did a much better job at handling traffic than AT&T did during the emergency. Then he asked me if I would rather have my business able to make calls during the next emergency. At this point I thanked him for the call and assured him that during the next quake I would be sure to dial "10333". Then I hung up! John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !