Media for Re: Foreign Directory Listings

Re: Foreign Directory Listings

I don't care.

The ILEC is required to take the listing from the customer. They can use the law to compel payment of their bills et al, then they can suffer the law when it compels them in turn.

Again, I don't care.

That they've forgotten how to execute their mandated responsibilities does not absolve them of their responsibilities.

The telco(s) made the choice to be so regulated. They made that bed. Now they can lie in it. And I hope they die in it.

T writes:

Adjusted for inflation, in constant dollars, my bill is lower and my services are better than what my parents and what my grandparents enjoyed.

AT&T would never have done any of that if they had suffered from Carterphone and then from divesture.

You probably want to go back to the days when it was *illegal* for two neighboring companies to lay down a so much as a dry pair between each other's buildings.

Mark Atwood When you do things right, people won't be sure snipped-for-privacy@mark.atwood.name you've done anything at all.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Listen, I actually saw a case like this, and it was *one single customer*. The old Harper Theatre in Chicago (in Hyde Park) decided to run a single pair in a loop around their (rather large) premises from backstage to box office to upstairs office. Their own battery on it, etc. The only place it even came close to Bell was at one location (upstairs office) they terminated that pair on one side of a two line turn button style phone. Everywhere else it was on its own, with its own instruments, etc. Bell really raised a stink (this was early 1970's) and required theatre to either remove it or have it added to their monthly bill as a 'private circuit' for several dollars per month. PAT]