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Re: Sales of second phones, a major profit driver (fwd)
regarding the RBOC's complaints about the Internet and congestion
jamie
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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:07:57 -0500
From: Roger Bohn <Rbohn@UCSD.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <com-priv@lists.psi.com>
Subject: Re: Sales of second phones, a major profit driver
At 1:30 PM -0500 11/4/96, Sean Donelan wrote:
>Compared to the doom and gloom studies Bell Atlantic and other RBOCs
>published last month about how the Internet is ruining the telephone
>network, this quarter's financials statements are positively perky.
>--
>Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
Last Thursday (?) I heard a long story about this "growing problem" on
Marketplace, the NPR-carried business news program. The story was, as most
are, completely one-sided. It talked about the COST incurred because of
longer phone calls, but nothing about the REVENUES.
That night I got home and found, in my mail, an aggressive solicitation
from: !! Pacific Bell!! for a second phone line. And, as an inducement
if you get a second line they offered to throw in:
5 months free, including unlimited usage, on their new Internet service!
So obviously their marketing people believe the opposite of what their PR
people are saying. To me their PR smells of a standard attempt by a
regulated (quasi) monopoly to influence the California regulators.
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Roger Bohn Rbohn@UCSD.edu
University of California, San Diego
Internet traffic is not free. It just looks that way because someone
else is paying.
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