John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com> (06/11/90)
Bearing in mind that Pac*Bell offers no ISDN-type features with its
Centrex offerings, the latest TV ad is really a hoot:
The announcer intones, "Nothing hurts more than spending a lot of
money on a phone system, only to have it worth nothing after two
years. You grew and it couldn't. So now do what you should have done
in the first place..."
Meanwhile the video is showing people in an office ripping out old
2564 sets (six button, TT 1A2 key) and literally throwing them in the
wastebaskets. Then you see them unpacking nice, shiny (but
non-descript) electronic, skinny-wire key sets and plugging them into
wall mount RJ11C jacks.
In case the irony escapes you here, let me explain. Reality would be
exactly the reverse. If they (in the video) had bought a phone system
that they had outgrown, then they would be ripping out the electronic
sets and installing something simple and plain (like 1A2 key sets).
You don't suppose that they are trying to imply with the visual that
you can get real advanced Centrex features (such as those found
everywhere else in the country) here in California? Would Pac*Bell
mislead the public? Is the Pope Catholic?
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