From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!berry
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Tariffs - (nf)
Article-I.D.: zehntel.765
Posted: Thu Feb 17 13:17:53 1983
Received: Mon Feb 21 06:26:24 1983

#N:zinfandel:4900007:000:776
zinfandel!berry    Feb 17 09:20:00 1983

I once went to my local telco office and asked to see the tariffs
governing  data  communications.   (I  was  trying to decide if a
leased line would be cheaper than long distance calls to my  com-
puter). When I was trying to find out how much leased lines cost,
it took me about seven calls to 4 different offices to find  out!
I  got  disgusted, and thought I'd find out myself.  Sure enough,
they cheerfully let me peruse them at my leisure. The only  prob-
lem  was, they are next to impossible for 'laymen' to understand.
The obtuse regulatory wording and hodgepodge  organization  makes
it difficult to find out what you want to know unless you already
know it.

	Berry Kercheval
	Zehntel Inc.
	(decvax!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)

(The office was in Vallejo, CA.)