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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 11:24:34 -0800
- From: Jeff Sicherman <sichermn@csulb.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Mission Impossible: IBT Getting My Order Correct
- Message-ID: <telecom13.7.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Cal State Long Beach
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 7, Message 2 of 13
- Lines: 38
-
- In article <telecom13.5.1@eecs.nwu.edu> TELECOM Moderator <telecom@
- eecs.nwu.edu> writes:
-
- > The past week has been a barrel of laughs where IBT is concerned with an
- > order to change some service for me.
-
- ... Story deleted ...
-
- > For now, I'll be content if the software to be used on the computer
- > associated with those lines arrives soon, gets installed and works
- > okay.
-
- Aside from the pleasure of the phone company getting hoisted on
- their own caller-id petard (sp?), this story raised an interesting
- idea:
-
- With the phone companies getting rid of intelligent and experienced
- (and thus higher paid) people in record numbers (and, if Higdon is to
- be believed, GTE well ahead of the industry in this strategy) the
- opportunities for confusion over increasingly more complex and
- potentially contradictory services with less decreasingly less
- competent people at the phone company to deal with them would seem to
- loom large.
-
- Perhaps it's time for them to take the lead of some banks and
- provide some limited sort of ON-LINE (via modem and terminal/PC)
- access for selected, knowledgeable customers to submit their own
- work-orders by interacting with an expert system that has access to a
- database of their current configuration, knowlegde of features and how
- they interact with each other, and the logic to sort it all out
- correctly. It would at least eliminate one source of mis-communication
- or mis-interpretation of both clients wishes and the nature of the
- modern phone system/network workings.
-
-
- Jeff Sicherman
-
-