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Article #11257Re: New Long Distance Rate Comparison
From: AKA
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 00:50
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 00:50
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patterson,george r (patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com) wrote: : In article <34rt5i$dfi@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, : Christopher J Burian <cburian@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote: : Nothing wrong with that, but I feel a tad differently. My brother and I : were in Germany some years back, and a family emergency came up. It was : important that we reach my mother back home immediately. John has Sprint, : I have AT&T. We tried three times to call the States using John's account : and couldn't get anywhere. I gave my calling card account code to the : overseas operator and we were connected to Tennessee in less than a minute : - with the bill going on my home phone account instead of ten times that : amount going on the hotel bill. : Since then, I've ignored all offers from any other long distance company. I agree! I have had a couple of emergencies where I had to call India and I did not have my phone card handy. While my (then not now) phone compnay would not help me AT&T helped. Now I stay away from MCI etc. The service I get from AT&T is sometimes worth the extrax 0.02 cents. Also I have never, I mean never had a problem dealing with AT&T over their telephone bills. MCI was a pain in the butt.
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