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.)