Telecom-Request%usc-eclc@brl-bmd.UUCP (Telecom-Request@usc-eclc) (09/23/83)
TELECOM Digest Friday, 23 Sep 1983 Volume 3 : Issue 60 Today's Topics: Administrivia - Duplicate issues [york: Re: long-distance carriers] MCI MCI to Aberdeen. Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #58 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 20 Sep 1983 1049-PDT From: Jon Solomon <JSol@USC-ECLC> Subject: Duplicate issues Some of you received more than one copy of TELECOM. This was due to a mailer problem which (we hope) has been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Sep 83 13:30:15 EDT From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl-vld> Subject: [york: Re: long-distance carriers] My reply appears after this forwarded message. (I can't send it to the sender because the mail system did not recognize the address.) ----- Forwarded message # 1: Date: 20 Sep 1983 11:52-EDT From: york at scrc-vixen Subject: Re: long-distance carriers To: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl-vld@mc> Well, the MCI ads now say that they can reach EVERY phone in the country. Try calling your MCI rep again. ----- End of forwarded messages What do you mean, "reach EVERY phone in the country"? Do you mean the points I call or the points I am calling FROM? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Sep 83 15:09:49 EDT From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl-vld> Subject: MCI The nuisance part of my phone bill I was trying to deal with is credit-card calls from work back to where I come from. In Maryland, I have been told that an MCI credit card account would require my calling from Baltimore. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Sep 83 14:38:53 EDT From: Ron Natalie <ron@brl-vgr> Subject: MCI to Aberdeen. Carl, have you checked recently. MCI picked up Aberdeen through a Bel Air number about a year ago. -Ron ------------------------------ From: ihnp4!ihuxm!cmsj%harpo@BRL-BMD.ARPA Date: 19 Sep 83 10:01:37 EDT (Mon) From: decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxm!cmsj@BRL-BMD.ARPA Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #58 Regarding the question on Enterprise numbers: Some things die very slowly in thhe Bell System. Enterprise numbers were/are the early form of "800" service. There are those customers out there who are quite happy with their Enterprise service and have no desire to "upgrade" to 800. Besides, 800 usually costs more and Enterprise service can be made more "local" in the sense that only one (or at most a few) TSPSs have to maintain paper records (Enterprise numbers translate into plain old telephone numbers, hence the lookup.) Chris Jachcinski Bell Labs, Naperville, IL ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest *********************