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- Date: 2 Jan 1993 01:13:16 GMT
- From: petrilli@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Yet Another Horrible AOS Story
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- Just to increase the enjoyment for the holidays, I thought I'd share
- my AOS story with everyone.
-
- I was on the way from Austin, TX -- where I live -- to Dallas to visit
- a friend, when I stoped in Garland to make a "routine" call to tell
- him that I would be there shortly (Garland is 30 minutes or so from
- where he lives), when I foolishly selected a "generic" pay phone at a
- Texaco gas station.
-
- Sicne both the origination number and the destination number were in
- the 214 area code, I decided to place the call simply using a quarter
- (hoping it wasn't long distance). Anyway, I reached the party, and
- spoke to them for a total of about five seconds before the phone
- decided that it wanted to eat more of my money ... it asked for
- something around $2.50 for the "next two minutes." At that point, I
- dialed the phone number against to use my SWBT phone card, hoping to
- force it to deal with SWBT ... no go, I get a "bong" and a "Thank you
- for using ATMT" (note this sounds A LOT like "The Phone Company"
- AT&T). I then dialed the standard 10288, the whole number, and then
- receive a bong and the same "ATMT" message. Not even forcing through
- to AT&T ... I'm not a happy camper.
-
- To solve the problem, I ended up driving about a block to a SWBT pay
- phone that liked what I wanted better ... note that THIS pay phone
- allowed me to make the full call on a quarter.
-
-
- Chris Petrilli petrilli@gnu.ai.mit.edu I don't even speak for myself.
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