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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:33:40 GMT
- From: GeraldR@sunfish.ratsys.com (Gerald Ruderman)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: ANI Long Distance Service: Okay or Beware?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.698.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Rational Systems, Inc.
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 698, Message 2 of 12
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- In article <telecom12.685.1@eecs.nwu.edu> toddi@mav.com (Todd Inch)
- writes:
-
- > The reseller salesperson/owner tried to make dialing the 14 or so
- > extra digits and lack of one-plus dialing (he doesn't have
- > arrangements with the local telco to offer one-plus dialing) a
- > "feature" because you can keep your existing long distance company for
- > "emergencies".
-
- When I lived in an area served by GTE with only two connections
- between the CO and the long distance network I found the "emergency"
- feature of a reseller very handy. Their conection to the outside world
- was always working when my 1+ connection was blocked by failure or
- overloading.
-
-
- Gerald Ruderman geraldr@ratsys.com
-
-