David Tamkin <dattier@chinet.chi.il.us> (02/01/90)
Also sprach Tad Cook in TELECOM Digest, Volume 10, Issue 64: | David Tamkin had an AMAZING story about trying to use MCI as a | secondary carrier, and all the problems he had with MCI, IL Bell, and | Centel when they kept assigning MCI as the primary carrier against his | wishes. You are easy to amaze, Mr. Cook; Illinois Bell did it only once and Centel didn't do it at all (though MCI asked them twice). | I am happy to report that we tried such as scheme with Sprint, and did | not have this kind of problem. Nor have I. US Sprint and Telecom*USA are each very amenable to having my parents' numbers and mine all on my account. (Telecom*USA is my 1+ carrier but 10XXX for my parents; the US Sprint account is 10XXX on all four phone numbers.) Only MCI have been troublemakers. Another response came in email. Bill Huttig, who I hope will not mind my repeating this, told me that after MCI did that to him once, he got his local BOC to flag his account not to accept any reaffiliation orders that come from carriers rather than from him. He suggested I ask Illinois Bell if they would mark my parents' account accordingly. I asked. They marked. MCI hasn't tried it again, so perhaps this extra caution will turn out superfluous in the long run. David Tamkin PO Box 813 Rosemont IL 60018-0813 708-518-6769 312-693-0591 dattier@chinet.chi.il.us BIX: dattier GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN CIS: 73720,1570