[comp.dcom.telecom] Useless Phone Books

rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) (06/11/91)

Around here, everyone gets two phone books, one from the phone company
and one from some sleazy fly-by-night outfit.  Everyone I know
immediately burns the sleazy book.

But the regular book isn't that great either.  It seems to have three
different sections, each one with pages sequentially numbered from
one.  This makes it pretty hard to find anything.  Let's see, is that
page 14 in the Info Pages or page 14 in the Customer Guide Pages?

In addition, at one time the book told you when was the cheap time to
make a long distance call, and how to make an international call.  It
doesn't any more.  Yes, I know why it doesn't, but it's still
annoying.  Is it 011 or 01 for operator assisted?  I can't ever
remember and the book is no help.  Are there actually any long-distance 
carriers that don't use the same access codes as AT&T?  If so, why?

Well, that's my petty complaining for today.