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From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris)
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Subject: Re: Types of Service
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Date: 14 Aug 89 05:32:47 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 297, message 1 of 8

(Paul Fuqua) writes:
>X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 290, message 4 of 13
>     I'm moving from one apartment to another this weekend, and called
>my friendly Southwestern Bell office to arrange for the phone service to
>be moved.  The amusing thing was that the representative offered me my
>   ...edited...
>     Here's another question:  how come the electric company can switch
>my service for only $7, while the phone company charges $60?  Since all
>the wiring is in place, about all that's involved is a billing change.

Well, you're assuming that the apartment you're moving into has phone
service (99% (or more) likely, but there's always the chance...)

Back when I was doing interconnect, my insurance agent moved from one
office in a building to another on the same floor.  She was quoted an
outrageous sum to move her 6 lines.  I told her to tell GTE (the Great
Telephone Experiment) that the move had been canceled, and I'd move her.
THe job was simple - move 6 pairs in the wiring closet.  The mailman
delivered the bills correctly, so there was no difference to GTE.
A couple of months later she called GTE and told them that they had
been sending the bills to the wrong address from the beginning, and would
they please correct it?  No problem, says them...  End of story.

Her comment was that GTE stood for Graft, Theft & Extortion.  Something
like $100 _per line_ for something that took me under 10 minutes for all 6!.

Mike Morris
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#Include quote.cute.standard   | The opinions above probably do not even come
cat flames.all > /dev/null     | close to those of my employer(s), if any.