Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!netsys!vector!nobody From: Miguel_Cruz@ub.cc.umich.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Other Custom Calling Suggestions Message-ID:Date: 30 Nov 88 08:07:46 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 26 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 189, message 3 In response to the Moderator's list of possible/potential/rumored/planned new phone services... I have heard of most of those at one time or another from Bell people... two others I heard tossed around quite a bit were call blocking (you dial a code and can block out a certain number, or the person who called you last (as in the case of a prank call where you don't know their number..). Supposed to cost $3-$5 per month plus fee for each # blocked), and a deal where if you just miss a phone call (towel up and get out of the shower and it stops ringing, you dial a code and it calls them back). Looks like both of these would require for your exchange to know where the call came from... Way things are these days, it'll probably be quite a while before we see some of these (pointless?) services. - How come some months my MCI and Sprint (I have one on each line) bills come from the respective carriers, and other months they come on Michigan Bell stationery with my regular bill? The MCI one has become pretty consistent, but the Sprint one has been frittering back and forth for some months now. Miguel Cruz Miguel Cruz@ub.cc.umich.edu University of Michigan