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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 09:07:25 CST
- From: mattair@sun44.synercom.hounix.org (Charles Mattair)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: More Idiocy From GTE
- Message-ID: <telecom12.924.8@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Synercom Technology, Inc., Houston, TX
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 924, Message 8 of 11
- Lines: 33
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- 12/26, trying to call (713) 370 from (713) 337 (roughly, far far south
- Houston to far northwest Houston, GTE to SWB).
-
- I don't know if it's long distance so I first try 7D. SID tones (at
- what feels like 110db), "The number you requested cannot be completed
- as dialed, please consult ..." message. I'm sure I dialed the number
- correctly so try it again (this time holding phone far from ear) --
- same screech followed by same message.
-
- Call operator -- verify the call is LD and GTE is just issuing the
- wrong message.
-
- As I'm at a friends house, I decide to put the call on calling card.
- 102880+10D. <boing> GTE. Huh ...? I know this is intralata but I
- told them to use AT&T. They can't override my choice of carrier can
- they? Try it again except as 102880 + 7D (713 has gone 1/0 + 10D on
- all LD calls but who knows what GTE is doing). <boing> GTE.
-
- Call the operator to see whats going on -- it should work, you must be
- misdialing, etc.
-
- Finally, in disgust, 1028800. <boing> AT&T. Placed the call and
- nobody answered :-(
-
- Just for the record, SWB and GTE are staging major lobbying efforts
- for the upcoming session of the Texas Legislature. The desired goal
- is the effective deregulation of telcos in Texas.
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-
- Charles Mattair mattair@synercom.hounix.org
- Any opinions offered are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
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