jimmy@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Jim Gottlieb) (03/10/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0082m04@vector.UUCP>, hobbit@pyrite.rutgers.edu (*Hobbit*) writes: > The COCOT outfits delay *18* months? yow. > > .... in the > case of 10xxx from home and the associated billing snarl, you could have > *moved* before some of the less-efficient Mom-n-Pop carriers finally bill > you. Here in Los Angeles, we had a carrier a few years back named "American PTT", supposedly owned by one of the European PTTs. They were the most hokey LD carrier I have ever heard. Many of their trunks howled, and many of us were convinced that it was run out of someone's living room. The good part though, was that in their one year of existence, they never billed for any casually dialed (10APT) calls. They said they were working on getting a billing agreement with the local telco, but I guess they never did because we all got about a year of free long distance calling from them. Now _that_'s the kind of carrier I would like to see more of. -- Jim Gottlieb E-Mail: <jimmy@denwa.uucp> or <jimmy@pic.ucla.edu> or <attmail!denwa!jimmy> V-Mail: (213) 551-7702 Fax: 478-3060 The-Real-Me: 824-5454