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- From: PJJ125@URIACC.URI.EDU (Tony Pelliccio)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: The Worst Phone Lines in the US - Ha!
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 23:14:59 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 849, Message 5 of 13
-
- I lived in North Providence, RI for a bit and was assigned a
- Pawtucket, RI telephone number since New England Telephone likes to do
- things like that, break a small town up (only about 4.5 miles long)
- into three different exchanges that can call each other and a certain
- amount of RI for the basic rate, but then each has it's own little
- special calling areas.
-
- In any case, the next street over began the next exchange so I got
- jacked with a Pawtucket number and the absolute WORST telephone
- service one could ask for. Seems I was at the end of the loop and
- couldn't even get my modem to connect at 300 baud to a system that was
- only about two miles away in Providence.
-
- I went through three months of sheer hell until I finally due to a
- rising toll bill, got a foreign exchange. Now the interesting part is
- that the line from my phone to the Pawtucket CO was the same, but boy
- did it work better. Yup ... you guessed it, they put all sorts of
- range extenders, amps, conditioners etc on the line when you're paying
- for FX service.
-
- Also ... NET has this strange way of completing orders here ... they
- sometimes send TWO techs on different days to fix the same thing. :)
-