Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Types of Service Message-ID:Date: 15 Aug 89 14:52:29 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Roy Smith Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 26 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 301, message 7 of 10 In vol 9, issue 297, msg 1/8, Mike Morris writes: > 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!. I used to think it was outrageous what TPC charged for service changes when all it involved was throwing a few switches (or, more likely, typing a few commands). Then, I had a second line put in where I used to live. Some guy shows up in a truck to make the connections (yes, we already had phone service, but didn't have a spare pair into the apartment from the box in the back yard (4 unit apartment building). So the guy has to get into the back yard. But, the only normal access to the back yard is through the garden apartment, and nobody is home there, so the guy ends up climbing down our fire escape. In the pouring rain. With all his gear. All his gear turns out to include his ladder, since it seems there aren't any good pairs from the pole to the box in the back yard. To make a long story short, he was there for several hours piecing together a pair all the way down to some panel on the next block. All for the same $60 or whatever it was. I don't know what a man and a truck cost for several hours (not including travel time) but I'm sure TPC lost money on that one. It probably averages out. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"