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Grex > Agora41 > #78: I hate long distance phone companies! | |
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jep
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response 25 of 32:
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Apr 12 03:53 UTC 2002 |
Sterling Commerce, my employer, a developer of EDI and communications
software, was purchased by SBC a couple of years ago; shortly after I
started there. In the last few weeks I've gotten two solicitations for
some PAC for SBC. I got one of them at work, with the envelope loudly
proclaiming that I could be saving my job (presumably, if I contribute
to the PAC). We regularly get e-mails from the president of SBC,
asking us to pressure our legislators to be "fair" to SBC.
Sorry, don't think so. SBC has agreed to share access to it's phone
lines in exchange for the right to offer long distance service, and it
hasn't done what it agreed to do. I'd like to see our stock price go
up, which will happen when SBC bullies the Michigan legislature into
allowing it to start offering long distance service. I have stock
options. But I'd really have to hold my nose while writing a check to
an SBC PAC.
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jp2
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response 26 of 32:
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Apr 12 13:07 UTC 2002 |
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gull
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response 27 of 32:
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Apr 15 20:40 UTC 2002 |
The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
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void
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response 28 of 32:
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Apr 15 22:45 UTC 2002 |
Wow. My cell phone service is through Sprint and I've never had any
trouble with them.
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remmers
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response 29 of 32:
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Apr 15 23:19 UTC 2002 |
Ditto. (so far)
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scg
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response 30 of 32:
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Apr 16 06:24 UTC 2002 |
My understanding of the local phone companies doing the long distance company
billing is that they send the bill the long distance company asks them to
send, rather than just monitoring your calls and automatically generating the
bill. It's the long distance company that has to tell them what rates to
charge you for the various calls, and so forth. If Verizon was billing you,
it's most likely because some computer at Sprint was telling some computer
at Verizon to do so every month.
I had this problem with Sprint once too. At least, I think I did. The bills
were confusing enough that I was never quite sure they were billing me for
the same calls twice. I forget what the final resolution was, but it involved
switching long distance companies.
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oval
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response 31 of 32:
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Apr 16 07:08 UTC 2002 |
oh man am i pissed. i purposely don't have long distance,so you'd think i
can't make long distance calls, right? when my grandfather died i picked up
the phone to call my brother and dialed his number without pressing 1+area
code first. i just wasn't thinking. now i have a $20 charge on my bill for
a 2 minute call to "540/970" numbers. fuck you very much, verizon.
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gull
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response 32 of 32:
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Apr 16 14:17 UTC 2002 |
My experience with my Sprint Fonecard is that it takes three attempts
for any change-of-address to 'take'.
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