NBaheti.es@XEROX.COM (08/28/86)
I called my Pac-Tel office [again] to ask about when my second
phone line [213-325-xxxx] would be upgraded to ESS. Reply: maybe
easly next year, maybe and more probably never. Great! I am not in a
rural area either and yet I can't use IDDD, Easy Access, or any of the
special features getting advertised down here like Call-Waiting,
Call-Forwarding, Speed-Calling, Three-Way, et cetera ad naseum in
finium.
I then thought that I could get my phone number changed (although
VERY inconvenient, it may be worth it). I can, she said, if I was
willing to PAY something like $20 for it. I asked if I wanted one of
those special features how would I get it. Reply: we would change
your number to an ESS line for free [give you any ideas, guys?].
Barring Easy Access do any of the ALDS companies offer an
alternate way of using their services other than choosing them as your
primary LDC? Something like a generic 950-port that lets you dial out
and charges the line you are using [or is that too far-fetched?]?
--Arun Baheti
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