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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 00:14 PDT
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: PacBell Message Center Woes
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- stieglit@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jeff Stieglitz) writes:
-
- > Just what is the problem with Pacific Bell's Message Center?
-
- I have a number of associates who have (for whatever reasons)
- Pac*Bell's Message Center. On the basis of their experiences I have
- opted to pass on the service for myself.
-
- The Message Center has been and still is plagued with difficulties of
- every description. I remember some inside scuttlebutt about the firm
- who was awarded the contract. Officials of the company supplying the
- VM equipment felt that they had it made in the shade when Pac*Bell
- selected their wares for The Message Center, but a number of Pac*Bell
- types shuddered in disbelief. The vendor selection was apparently
- based upon considerations other than performance and quality.
-
- IMHO, Pac*Bell is going for the "GTE Service Award" with this one. The
- Message Center regularly loses messages, does not answer the phone
- when it is supposed to, and has, according to my associates, done a
- number of other very quirky things. It is a breeze to hack, so your
- messages are not very secure; the amount of recording time you can
- store is severely limited; it is unreliable in recording; it is
- unreliable in retrieval; and it is more expensive than an answering
- machine in the long run.
-
- My advice would be to by a machine. Pac*Bell seems to be completely
- unable to do anything about it -- probably because the system is
- fatally flawed to begin with.
-
-
- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115
- john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Oddly enough, Ameritech's system operates quite
- well using equipment from a company in Texas called Tygon, which
- coincidentally happens to be an Ameritech subsidiary. Everyone has
- their own taste of course, but technically our telephone 'voicemail'
- is a decent product. I have it at home. PAT]
-
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