AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (*Hobbit*) (01/28/86)
It sounds a tad less than legal for PacTel to *hassle* you for using touchtones and tell you that you can't. If they are legally entitled to charge you if they "find" you using tones, then there isn't much you could do about that [although we know it's not a usage-sensitive charge]. But to call you up and rake you over the coals about it is not very professional of them. I would yell very loudly at the highest company rep that you could find and make sure that something was done about it. What they should really do, if it worries them all that much, is to quietly disable your touchtone bit and wait for you to call in and place an order. Well, I pick up my horn here in Highland Park, NJ and check if equal access works here yet [it's promised Feb. 1]. 10222# and I get this recording of a guy saying "channel 7, RA 1" repeatedly. I get this on *all* 10XXX- format calls, either to real numbers or just raising the carrier's switch via 10XXX#. Well, at least they appear to be working on the cutover. Oh, interestinly enough 10288 is the only exception; it behaves like you'd expect AT&T to. Yippee. _H* -------