David Lesher <wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> (02/12/90)
What's the situation nowadays @ Atlanta's airport? While there, I tried the one armed bandits out. I seemed to be able to get through to MA and MCI via 950-xxxx, but when I dialed, the handset muted and I could hear DTMF faintly as it forwarded the call somewhere. I did not make any chargeable calls. A host is a host & from coast to coast...wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu no one will talk to a host that's close..............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335
jgd@rsiatl.uucp (02/13/90)
In comp.dcom.telecom you write: >What's the situation nowadays @ Atlanta's airport? While there, I >tried the one armed bandits out. I seemed to be able to get through to >MA and MCI via 950-xxxx, but when I dialed, the handset muted and I >could hear DTMF faintly as it forwarded the call somewhere. I did not >make any chargeable calls. This fine service is brought to you via the fine services of the National Telephone Services AOS. I wrote the software that runs their switch. I currently have a lawsuit pending against them for, among other things, fraud, kidnapping, assault, RICO violations and so on. Need I say more? PS: NEVER but NEVER make a chargeable call from the Atlanta Airport. If you do, expect to see >$5.00 for the first minute. Also expect to see an extra minute or two added to your call. If that happens, the Attorney General of Tennessee would probably like to talk to you. John De Armond, WD4OQC | We can no more blame our loss of freedom on congress- Radiation Systems, Inc. | men than we can prostitution on pimps. Both simply Atlanta, Ga | provide broker services for their customers. emory!rsiatl!jgd | - Dr. W Williams | **I am the NRA**
carols@husc6.harvard.edu (Carol Springs) (02/13/90)
In article <3755@accuvax.nwu.edu> David Lesher <wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> writes: >What's the situation nowadays @ Atlanta's airport? While there, I >tried the one armed bandits out. I seemed to be able to get through to >MA and MCI via 950-xxxx, but when I dialed, the handset muted and I >could hear DTMF faintly as it forwarded the call somewhere. I did not >make any chargeable calls. When I had to phone my boss's house in Massachusetts from the Atlanta airport on December 23, I decided to use my work-account NET calling card for billing convenience. After a couple of rings, I heard on the line something resembling a whisper from several yards away. After determining (by hello-helloing) that there was no way I could make out any words, I apologized to the silence just in case, moved to the next phone over, and dialed Sprint's 800 number. I successfully used my FONCARD and was later billed by Sprint for the eight-minute call. When the first call showed up (of course) on my local phone bill, the charge was $2.38 for one minute (on a Saturday morning), courtesy of National Telephone Services, Inc. I phoned their 800 number to have the charge credited, which the nervous-sounding NTS employee was able to do within a few minutes. I was being very polite, but she was breathing heavily and sounded almost frightened -- new hire, perhaps. She explained to me that I had probably let the phone ring a little too long; I explained to her that this wasn't the problem; everything was settled with a minimum of fuss and entirely too much trouble for the silly two bucks. This was, believe it or not, my first first-hand experience with a bad AOS charge. With any luck it will be my last. Anyhow, in answer to David Lesher's question, Sprint 800 calls work with no rerouting on Atlanta airport phones, or at least those phones whose default long-distance "service" is listed as NTS. Carol Springs carols@drilex.dri.mgh.com