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Article #21604Re: Phone rate hike
From: James Song
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:29
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 16:29
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In article <chiCtEIuA.Lq8@netcom.com> chi@netcom.com (Curt Hagenlocher) writes: >max_kislik.es_ae@xerox.com (Max Kislik) writes: > >>Maybe so, but my understanding is that in order to use another carrier >>(not your local monopoly), you'll have to dial an extra 5 digits. That's >>something most people won't do, and that's why I think its a massive rip-off. > >I never claimed to be informed about the specifics of any of this. I agree >that having to dial an extra 5 digits to make a Zone 5-type call is >ridiculous. I called Sprint asking about the extra 5 digits dialing for regional calls. The operator refuesed to tell me how. He was saying that the FCC rule prohibits him from promoting the use of that feature to make regional calls. --James
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,e6e2b358cf02d385 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,e6e2b358cf02d385 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: 104eff,e6e2b358cf02d385 X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-07-26 12:28:24 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!wp-sp.nba.trw.com!newswire.etdesg.TRW.COM!bart!song From: song@bart.uucp (James Song) Newsgroups: ca.general,ca.politics,la.general Subject: Re: Phone rate hike Date: 26 Jul 1994 16:29:20 GMT Organization: TRW High Performance Networks Lines: 16 Message-ID: <313dl1$9ii@newswire.etdesg.TRW.COM> References: <chiCtCGIK.Eup@netcom.com> <30ov5b$edk@vine.cp10.es.xerox.com> <chiCtEIuA.Lq8@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.193.96.2