And since the original call(s) -- there were
> two, remember, one picked up by voicemail and the next one
> immediately following both came from a bogus number in Austin, TX
> and what major corporation do we know which is located there in
> recent months having merged with another infamous bunch?
I give up Pat -- what major corporation could you be referring to?
It certainly isn't AT&T Inc. (the former SBC, which bought AT&T Corp.), because that company is based in San Antonio, not Austin.
Bob Goudreau Cary, NC
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: That is what makes it a puzzle for me also. I would assume the caller was inquiring about the Associated Press mention of 'AT&T Gets Stalled on Purchase of BellSouth' and it seemed odd he would get so far in his research of what was written to call me asking for Mr. Dunbar (author of the AP story). But it also seemed odd to me that the caller (whomever he was) had sufficent control over his phone lines and ID of same to call me from an Austin, Texas number one minute and call back ID'ing himself as a California number a couple minutes later; both times on an inbound line of mine known to no one except Digest readers. But if the caller had control over a non-existent number in Austin, Texas and a working number in Caifornia _and_ he was greatly interested in a Digest message about AT&T, then whom might it have been? PAT]