[comp.dcom.telecom] Bogus AT&T Charges on my Local Phone Company Bill

rig@eng.umd.edu (Ronald Greenberg) (01/09/91)

Two months ago I got a charge from AT&T on my local bill (C&P
Telephone) for a call from Newark, NJ to Oxon Hill, MD.  I live in DC,
was not in NJ at the time, use ITT as my LD carrier, and have nothing
to do with AT&T.  I called the phone number for billing inquiries on
the AT&T page, and they said they would credit me; they haven't.  I
accidentally, ended up writing my check to C&P for the full amount, so
I probably would have never remembered that I wasn't credited, but
today I got another bogus charge.  This time, it is from S ORG (South
Orange, I suppose), NJ to a different number in Oxon Hill, MD.

Does anybody have any advice on actually getting AT&T to credit me?
Is there a way to get C&P Telephone to stop acting as a billing agent
for AT&T?  I would like to be able to just pay the C&P portion of my
bill without having to write any explanations to C&P and without
having them complain about anything unpaid.


Ron Greenberg   rig@eng.umd.edu