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Article #4728Re: MCI Sucks: BEWARE!!!
From: Greg King
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9628,92c42a8507ea1486 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9628,public X-Google-Thread: 105c4d,92c42a8507ea1486 X-Google-Attributes: gid105c4d,public X-Google-Thread: 12ec63,92c42a8507ea1486 X-Google-Attributes: gid12ec63,public X-Google-Thread: 10f21d,92c42a8507ea1486 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f21d,public X-Google-Thread: ffd79,92c42a8507ea1486 X-Google-Attributes: gidffd79,public X-Google-Thread: 10bd82,92c42a8507ea1486 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bd82,public X-Google-Thread: fc7b2,92c42a8507ea1486 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7b2,public X-Google-Thread: 1550f9,92c42a8507ea1486 X-Google-Attributes: gid1550f9,public From: Greg King <gking@phoenix.net> Subject: Re: MCI Sucks: BEWARE!!! Date: 1996/03/09 Message-ID: <31412AA3.3A41@phoenix.net> X-Deja-AN: 142213731 references: <3137658D.35E5@valleynet.com> <4hdu5g$ma4@SNFC21_SRVR_WWW.PBI.net> <4hl33u$mmf@tabloid.amoco.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Phoenix Datanet , Inc. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.internet.services,houston.internet.providers,ne.internet.services,sacramento.internet,necus.internet.news,necus.internet.announce,necus.internet.commerce,misc.news.internet.discuss,alt.internet.access,backbone.general,comp.dcom.telecom.tech,comp.dcom.frame-relay,di.internet, x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I)