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Re: Socially-Responsible Long Distance (was: AT&T Long Distance Boycott)

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From: David Barker-Plummer
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:30
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In article <JYM.92Sep9123430@remarque.berkeley.edu> jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes:

J> From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
J> Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach
J> Date: 9 Sep 92 12:34:30

> There's always Sprint; heck, they've even heard of data
> networking . . .

J> =o= You can get a user interface to Sprint that's especially
J> socially responsible:  Working Assets Long Distance.  They
J> have nice features like:

I have the working assets credit card: and was about to switch to this
long distance service until I discovered that it was Sprint that
benefits.

Sprint switched my residential service from AT&T without my
permission.  When called on this, they could produce no documentation,
no reason they might have believed that we wanted to be switched,
nothing.  They fought the suggestion that they might pay to switch us
back; to restore our long distance service to the way it was before
they intervened without our permission.  Further, they billed us
repeatedly for calls made under their service, before we found out
that we had been switched.

-- Dave
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Subject: Re: Socially-Responsible Long Distance (was: AT&T Long Distance Boycott)
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