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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:38:16 EST
- From: mike@camphq.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Bray)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Cellular One/NY Re-bills Roaming Charges
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 46, Message 12 of 12
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- While roaming in the San Francisco area last June, I had the
- opportunity to try Cellular One's NACN (North-Anerican-Cellular-
- Nonsense). At that time it didn't hardly work, and the folks at
- Cellular One/SF all gave me conflicting reports about "you have to
- make at least one call" or "just turn your phone on" etc, etc. At
- that time, the term Nonsense was justified.
-
- But during my last trip to that area in October, they seem to have
- corrected all their problems and the NACN now works quite nicely.
- (Except if you have voicemail, right Douglas?)
-
- And of course when I get to a new area, I call them and ask them what
- their roaming rates and policies, are, etc. And I also took my
- _Official_Cellular_Roaming_Handbook_ too.
-
- But when we got our phone bills from Cellular One/NY, we find that the
- roaming charges are NOT what the carriers themselves say they are! It
- seems that for certain NACN systems, but not all of them, Cellular
- One/NY re-bills the other systems' $2.00/day + .50/minute as
- nothing/day + .99/minute!
-
- When I called Cellular One/NY to complain about this, they just say
- "this is the way we do it" and that's all I can get them to say. I
- can't find anything about this practice in any of Cellular One/NY's
- paperwork and they can't seem to explain it either.
-
- Has anyone else had this done to them?
-
-
- Mike Bray mike@camphq.FIDONET.ORG (or) ...!apple!camphq!mike
-
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