Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: sybase!calvin!ben@tis.llnl.gov (no capitals here) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Long Distance carriers: ATT, MCI vs. Sprint Message-ID:Date: 29 Nov 88 19:52:33 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 32 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 191, message 7 My company currently uses sprint's dial 1 wats service on some 52 lines from our pbx & modems. the line quality (clear as a bell no matter where we call) and rates (never more than $.20/minute on any domestic call) are the chief reasons we're staying with them. recently, sprint has had a number of failures that have crippled domestic service for .5 hour to 3 hours or more. i've been fielding a lot of heat from our company's personnel when this happens and it's no fun. their service to the UK (where we have our european headquarters) sometimes drops calls right in the middle of a conversation; the european service is consistently bad. needless to say, i'm looking to AT & T and MCI to replace sprint service. what i want to know is if others are getting rates similar to ours coupled with very good line quality. i just read in last week's _Network World_ that line quality among the major carriers is evening out and is bacoming less of a selling point. please let me know what kind of rates and line quality you are getting if they are around what i mentioned above. thanks in advance for your replies. ...ben -- consider my words disclaimed ben ullrich "everybody gets so much information all day long that sybase, inc. they lose their common sense." -- gertrude stein emeryville, ca ben%sybase.com@sun.com {pyramid,pacbell,sun,lll-tis,capmkt}!sybase!ben