Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!cp1!hart From: hart@cp1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Wrong Cliff (AT&T flame) Message-ID: <813@cp1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 18:44:30 EDT Article-I.D.: cp1.813 Posted: Tue Sep 25 18:44:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:04:19 EDT References: <574@utastro.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: C & P Tel. Co., Baltimore, Md. Lines: 87 > ^^^^^ <- flames to burn the line eater bug! > > I can't believe I am posting somthing to this newsgroup but it seemed the most > appropriate place. > > CLIFF ROBERTSON MISTAKEN > > First a little background.. I work weekends at a 50,000 watt am radio station in > San Antonio, Texas.. We have high volume trunkline service for our request line > (512-470-KSJL) so that when we run contests we don't fry exchanges. > > I decided to give another dj on the air a call on the request line from Austin > (where I spend my weekdays) I Was at a payphone so I figured might as well use > the old ATT credit card (I only got 4 in the mail last month). Well I dile the > number, my credit card number, then got the "we are unable to complete your > call as dialed, please check the number or ask the operator for assistance" > recording. > > I called the operator. > > She tried it... > > NO LUCK.. > > She gets the same recoprding.. and says thats not a good number. > > I say "no that is a good number, its the radio station I work for!!!" > > Being the helpful sort of operator she decided to call the San Antonio operator > and find out what the problem was.. > > The San Antonio operator says "sorry there is a memo that says we can't help > anyone calling a 470 number" > > I said "HU????" > > The Austin Operator said "but this is Austin calling, and we can't do it > ourselves" > > Well we went around and around with a supervisor or two in San Antonio none of > whom would/could help. I was ready to use that line I've always wanted to use > on someone in the Bell system ("Could you please put me intouch with someone who > has the authority to fire you?") but I held my toung. > > After giving up I asked my operator from Austin if she had any suggestions. > She said no. I chuckeled and said "guess i'd better try MCI" she didn't find > the humor in this I had intended, and promptly hung up on me. > > I was a little hacked off by this point... So I forked over a quarter > a quarter to try MCI.. By god it worked!! I got through. I loved it!! I then > got really extravigant and tried SPRINT.. Wow! it worked too! > > Well after this mess I called up our Program director at the station > and told him what happened.. We played around and tried it from Corpus Christi > and it worked... We tried again from Austin and no luck. We even thought about > going on the air saying "Long distance callers should use an alternate long > distance carrier as ATT won't let you call us" but we dicided to wait and see > if we could get it worked out. > > As I understand it we have to deal with the San Antonio & Austin divisions > of SW Bell as well as ATT. Who said the breakup would make anything "EASIER"? > > Cliff... not only have I found a phone ATT can't connect me with, I have > found operators who won't help me either. > > Iffen you wanna write me about anything I said in here use the mail as I > don't usually read this newsgroup. > > -- > Austin Party Board | BBS: 512-442-1116 | UUCP: {noao,ut-sally,ut-ngp,charm} > Blake Farenthold | MCI: BFARENTHOLD | !utastro!blake > 1804-A Cinnamon Path | CIS: 70070,521 | E-Pges: TEP115 > Austin, TX 78704 | STC: TCX023 | Delphi: blake IT WAS'NT BROKE, BUT THEY FIXED IT ANYHOW!!!!! -- ====================================================================== signed: Rod Hart (wa3mez) Minicomputer Technical Support District Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co. A Bell Atlantic Company Silver Spring, Md. gamma!cp1!hart - umcp-cs!cp1!hart - aplvax!cp1!hart ======================================================================