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- From: dwn@dwn.ccd.bnl.gov (Dave Niebuhr)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: N.E. Telephone Admits Riposs - Refuse Restitution
- Message-ID: <telecom13.37.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:43:13 GMT
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- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 37, Message 3 of 15
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- In TELECOM Digest V13 #29 Scott Hannahs <sth@slipknot.mit.edu> writes:
-
- > This is an interesting problem in that they seem to be hitting
- > universities and modem users. I have heard from at least one other
- > person who was misbilled involving other exchanges. This problem
- > applies to unlimited local service where you get an unlimited number
- > of very local calls un-itemized bill for not-so-local calls.
-
- Much text deleted ... dwn
-
- What I did when the Suffolk County, New York, government obtained
- three exchanges for its own use and found that an overbilling was
- occurring on calls to one of them was to file a formal complaint with
- the New York Utility (oops, Public) Service Commision when I received
- exactly no response from NYTel.
-
- How did I find out and prove my case? I simply asked the NYTel people
- to start sending me a Detail Charge Listing on a permanent basis so
- that I could monitor these calls. While my local calls aren't listed
- I found that *all* calls made by each assigned phone number are
- logged. NYTel goofed and listed a call from 516-395-XXXX to
- 516-281-XXXX which are both *in my house*, in the same CO and serve
- the same three communities.
-
- The overbilling is now finished and I pay the normal rate to call that
- particular exchange. It took over a year of pleading, talking,
- attempting to prove that I was right and simply telling the NYTel rep
- that she/he didn't know what they were talking about.
-
-
- Dave Niebuhr Internet: niebuhr@bnl.gov / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 (516)-282-3093
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