Merry Xmas from Michigan Bell.

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4 total messages Started by Dave Parks Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:27

#189

Author: Dave Parks
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:27

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   I just got off the phone with the most WONDERFUL young lady at Michigan
Bell (and most of you know I don't get along much with them), and she tells
me that May first, Michigan Bell will be combining the TOTAL of lines you
have in your home (billed to ONE bill) and giving us that amount of calls
to play with in any fashion we'd like. In other words... if you have 2 lines
currently in your home and they are billed to one bill, you can either make
400 calls on each or 800 calls on either one.

   This will of course help The Plex Project out since we make more than
400 calls each month on more than one line. Since I am currently paying
for 8 lines on one bill, we will be able to make upwards of 1600 calls
each month on our two UUCP dialouts. I asked the young lady to go recheck
her information and the start date (which she did), and it was confirmed.

   Has anyone else heard anything about this? I'm sure this will be good
news to a lot of us here in netland!
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Re: Merry Xmas from Michigan Bell.

#190

Author: Bob Leffler
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:52

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root@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (Dave Parks) writes:

>   I just got off the phone with the most WONDERFUL young lady at Michigan
>Bell (and most of you know I don't get along much with them), and she tells
>me that May first, Michigan Bell will be combining the TOTAL of lines you
>have in your home (billed to ONE bill) and giving us that amount of calls
>to play with in any fashion we'd like. In other words... if you have 2 lines
>currently in your home and they are billed to one bill, you can either make
>400 calls on each or 800 calls on either one.

Does this mean it will take effect 5/93 or has been effect since 5/92?





bob

Re: Merry Xmas from Michigan Bell.

#191

Author: Dave Parks
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:18

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In article <leffler.724974772@vela> leffler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Bob Leffler) writes:
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>Does this mean it will take effect 5/93 or has been effect since 5/92?
>
>
This means it will take effect 5/93. I -wish- it took effect last May,
I'd be getting a refund. ;)
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Re: Merry Xmas from Michigan Bell.

#204

Author: Jim Rees
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:06

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In article <1992Dec21.152700.4919@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us>, root@plex-1.ann-arbor.mi.us (Dave Parks) writes:

     I just got off the phone with the most WONDERFUL young lady at Michigan
  Bell (and most of you know I don't get along much with them), and she tells
  me that May first, Michigan Bell will be combining the TOTAL of lines you
  have in your home (billed to ONE bill) and giving us that amount of calls
  to play with in any fashion we'd like.

That's nice.

Of course, that's the way it always used to work before December 1991 when
they changed to the current system (which they couldn't have done back in
the days when the phone company was still regulated).  So, in typical
Michigan Bell style, they're going back to the old way of doing things and
making it sound like we're getting something new.

Actually, I'm not sure this is true.  I do know that in December they
changed from giving a simple total of all calls made to listing the counts
separately for each line.  But I never made more than the minimum number of
calls on each line before then, so I don't know how it would have been
billed.  I would appreciate hearing from someone who knows.

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