Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!magic!nvc!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!ucbvax!ddn2.arpa!CFMucken From: CFMucken@DDN2.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.telecom Subject: Telecom Digest V5 #55, Data Access Lines Message-ID: <8511052226.AA20879@ucb-vax.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 10:36:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucb-vax.8511052226.AA20879 Posted: Mon Nov 4 10:36:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 02:58:04 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 21 Approved: telecom@ucbvax.berkeley.edu It is very pleasing to see that PAC Bell is doing their best to keep cost down and quality up. It used to be that if you had a bad line you called up the TELCO and complained (persistently for 6-9 months), and someone checked the line, found out you were correct, and returned the line to specification (after an additional 3-4 months). Now PAC Bell will do this for $175 plus $22.25 a month to keep it that way (fat chance) plus some cash for Uncle Sugar. It's good to see divestiture has reduced costs so much! [While on the subject of cost, who is making all the money from the extra revenues collected on the various phone companies behalf? It surely cannot be the poor TELCOs, regional or long distance, because they keep upping the rates, must be all the lawyers.] Carl F. Muckenhirn ------- -------------END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE(S)-------------