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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 00:09:34 CDT
- From: varney@ihlpf.att.com (Alan L Varney)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Pacific Bell Ads for CLASS
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 628, Message 9 of 11
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- In article <telecom12.614.1@eecs.nwu.edu> 0005075968@mcimail.com (Jeff
- Garber) writes:
-
- > Pac Bell's advertising for CLASS services is really starting to get to
- > me. I just heard an ad that said, "Priority Ringing - another new
- > idea from Pacific Bell." How about, "another new idea *for* Pacific
- > Bell"? ...
-
- Are you sure it wasn't:
-
- "Priority Ringing(SM) - another new idea ..." ?
- {Priority Ringing(SM) is a Service Mark of Pacific Telesis}
-
- You see, you can offer a known product as a "service", give it a
- new MARKETING NAME, and claim/register it as your own. In fact, there
- are many lawyers making a good living off of the courts and this
- little gimick -- they register lots of names and acronyms as theirs,
- and then sell you the right to use them (because you won't find any
- desirable one's left). Another method of decreasing our national
- productivity ...
-
- Anyway, if they marketed it as "Distinctive Ringing", they'd have
- to say (somewhere):
-
- "Distinctive Ringing(SM) - a CLASS(SM) offering from ..."
- {Distinctive Ringing and CLASS are Service Marks of Bell Communication
- Research(CO), Inc., a research unit of Pacific Bell(CO), which is a
- subsidiary (for a while) of Pacific Telesis(CO). The company names
- are each Copyright by their respective owners, and this statement is
- also Copyright of Pacific Telesis. The use, mention, in anticipation
- or placement of a Distinctive Ringing(SM) call without the prior
- written consent of the owner may result in legal action toward all
- parties involved in the call or toward any party who could have placed
- such a call during the period of fault.}
-
- Seriously, with the many names of CLASS services across the
- country, it's no wonder non-telecom folks think the telephone system
- is in shambles. Interestingly enough, Illinois Bell doesn't use the
- word CLASS, but names (without SM, TM, or CO symbols) the CLASS
- services the same way Bellcore names them, except for "Repeat
- Dialing." Maybe the marketing folks weren't looking too closely...
-
- > ...(Doesn't everyone read TELECOM Digest or crack open the phone
- > book as soon as they get in their hotel room if they are traveling? :)
-
- You bet I do. In fact, I noticed that Ottawa, Canada, has one of
- the largest selection (in the Yellow Pages(TM)) of "Escort Services"
- I've ever seen. Big ads, with big ... Oh, you meant the Calling
- Instructions in the front. ... Never mind!!
-
- {Yellow Pages may be Trade Marked by some Telephone companies or by
- some computer companies that think electronic look-up originated with
- them.}
-
-
- Al Varney - just MY opinion ... really!
-
-