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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 19:58:02 GMT
- From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Is it Possible to Avoid Phone Line Hookup Service Charge?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.923.5@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 923, Message 5 of 9
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- I've seen talk on a WWIVNet telecom sub saying that one can avoid the
- service fee (approx. $40) by attaching the line yourself and then
- calling up and asking for a line to be activated. We currently have
- two lines in this house. Is it possible for me to run a new line and
- then just have it activated? Is my house likely already set up for
- more than two lines?
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- Michael Rosen Tau Epsilon Phi - George Washington University
- mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu Michael.Rosen@bbs.oit.unc.edu or @lambada.oit.unc.edu
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- [Moderator's Note: There are two types of installation charges. One
- deals with the paperwork and central office technical work. This is
- sometimes described as the 'service ordering fee' or similar, and it
- cannot be avoided. That work has to be done regardless. The second
- charge deals with work done at your premises -- post-demarc -- and it
- can be avoided by hooking up the line at your end once the work at the
- CO and the billing/accounting office has been done. This second
- charge is the one you primarily want to avoid if possible; the rates
- are much higher and might easily run $75-100 if the work becomes at
- all complicated. But try it yourself in an older highrise with a real
- messy demarc and hundreds or thousands of house pairs to deal with and
- you'll wish you'd spent the $75, believe me you. It is impossible to
- say what your house is wired for. My suggestion is if you do not know
- at this point, you'd be better off letting telco do it for additional
- expense. PAT]
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