[comp.dcom.telecom] Slam Dunk

jmm@uunet.uu.net (John Macdonald) (09/17/90)

In article <12123@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Higdon <john@bovine.ati.com> writes:

|So how 'bout it? From all accounts MCI does seem to be the slamming
|king. I have, on several occasions, had to "clean off" MCI as the
|default carrier on some of my clients' trunks. Associates of mine
|report the same. So while Sprint is exhorting potential customers to
|switch from AT&T, MCI is doing it for them whether they like it or
|not.

It would seem to me that any company that changes service without
written authorization is opening itself to a charge of *fraud*,
particularily if it is a slam dunk and there is no oral authorization
either.

Instigating criminal proceedings against MCI might reduce the
frequency of this sort of abuse.


John Macdonald
  jmm@eci386