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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 11:10:14 PST
- From: reb@ingres.com (Phydeaux)
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- Subject: Cell Phone SID in US / My Friend, Nynex Mobile ...
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- Hi!
-
- I have the SID chart from the telecom archives, but it's quite old.
- Has anyone managed to get a list of SIDs for US cellular service
- providers? My carrier (Nynex mobile in NJ) tells me to just 'dial
- *611' to find out what system you are on. "We do not have that
- information." My phone displays SID, and I've noticed that there are
- many new ones I've wandered into that are not on the list.
-
- It is difficult to get *any* information out of Nynex. They tell me
- they have call delivery into Philadelphia. I try it and it doesn't
- work. I call them when I'm in Philly, and ask them to call me back on
- my mobile number and it *still* doesn't work. What do they conclude?
- Of course, everything is working fine.
-
- Finally, I attempted to get roaming rates and information from Nynex.
- They sent me a booklet from 1990 with a few roamer ports listed. What
- I really wanted was the rates. When I lived in Chicago, Cell/One in
- Chicago had a nice handy booklet with all of this. But Nynex told me
- they could and would give the information out only for cities/systems
- I specifically requested. That is, in order to find out the rates
- for, say, California I would have to name each city and have them read
- the information to me over the phone.
-
- How the rates that the customer pays are a confidential item, to be
- specifically kept *from* the customer I'll never know. After a lot of
- complaining and threatening to cancel my service they finally
- photocopied their roamer information -- which is up to date and
- includes all systems, roamer ports, daily and per minute charges, etc.
-
- Do many other 'service' providers give customers this much of a hard
- time when they want to find out rates? In the last two years I'd say
- my experience with the cellular industry is that the carriers never
- have anybody who knows anything answering the phone, and they
- absolutely refuse to let you speak with anybody who knows anything.
-
-
- <sigh>,
- reb
-
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- [Moderator's Note: Both Cellular One and Ameritech in Chicago have the
- booklet you describe, listing roamer ports in hundreds of cities and
- dialing instructios, etc. They send them out as part of the sign up
- kit or you can get that information mailed out anytime. PAT]
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