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Re: MCI Sucks: BEWARE!!!

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From: Greg King
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 00:00
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I can see it now... a whole new era in phone company commercials.

"Friends and Family on the Internet" and "Internet calling circles" 

More pointless flame-war commercials between MCI , AT&T , and Sprint

on whose "pin" sounds better over a Frac-T. Maybe they can get Whitney 

Houston to sing over an ISDN line.

Greg King



ztest@amoco.com wrote:
> 
> Tom Willis <TAWILL1@PACBELL.COM> wrote:
> >Dan,
> >
> >Sorry to hear about your experience with MCI.  I work for your local access provider,
> >Pacific Bell and have heard more horror stories than yours.  But that is
> >little consolation when you are faced with angry customers and an over-taxed network.
> >
> >Your local Pacific Bell Account Team could offer you an alternative to MCI.  Our
> >standard provisioning interval for a generic T-1 is 19 business days.  Many times
> >we can beat this with a considerable margin.
> >
> >Knowing Fresno as I do, your location is just a few blocks from our primary Fresno
> >Central Office.  This makes the job even easier for us.
> >
> >Perhap you may want to look at Pacific Bell for your network services.  We have a
> >new subsidiary Pacific Bell Internet Services, they may be able to help you with more
> >than just T-1 access.
> >
> >Please e-mail me if you would like some assistance.
> >
> Not to be too big of a flame...but if I pick up my phone, call someone and get an
> "All circuits busy" message...just think of the joy of sending an email via a baby Bell
> and getting an "All ports busy" heheh.
> 
> Ryan
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From: Greg King <gking@phoenix.net>
Subject: Re: MCI Sucks: BEWARE!!!
Date: 1996/03/09
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