ben@tis.llnl.gov (no capitals here) (11/30/88)
My company currently uses sprint's dial 1 wats service on some 52 lines from
our pbx & modems. the line quality (clear as a bell no matter where we call)
and rates (never more than $.20/minute on any domestic call) are the chief
reasons we're staying with them.
recently, sprint has had a number of failures that have crippled domestic
service for .5 hour to 3 hours or more. i've been fielding a lot of heat
from our company's personnel when this happens and it's no fun. their
service to the UK (where we have our european headquarters) sometimes drops
calls right in the middle of a conversation; the european service is
consistently bad.
needless to say, i'm looking to AT & T and MCI to replace sprint
service. what i want to know is if others are getting rates similar to
ours coupled with very good line quality. i just read in last week's
_Network World_ that line quality among the major carriers is evening
out and is bacoming less of a selling point.
please let me know what kind of rates and line quality you are getting if they
are around what i mentioned above.
thanks in advance for your replies.
...ben
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ben ullrich "everybody gets so much information all day long that
sybase, inc. they lose their common sense." -- gertrude stein
emeryville, ca
ben%sybase.com@sun.com {pyramid,pacbell,sun,lll-tis,capmkt}!sybase!benron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (12/07/88)
I don't have any problem with AT&T sound quality, but they are not immune to outage either. Just a couple of weeks ago most of Northern New Jersey was without AT&T Long Distance service, plus it killed all my AT&T leased data circuits. Mostly I stay away from SPRINT because in the past I have had inordinate problems with dealing with their billing departments. -Ron