my ot rant, happy tuesday, phone bill, 1 collect call Options

[rhodyguy]

on the way to jp's i made a collect call from a pay phone. the 3 minute call cost $19.80!!! $3.30 for the actual call. $7.00 for the operator fee. $9.50 for the OWNER of the pay phone. what a racket!!! so i call ZERO PLUS DIALING which turns out to be the billing co. then i get the info for LEGACY LD INTL INC. turns out they are the long distance provider. so i asked "who owns the phone"? " due to our privacy agreement we cannot provide than info". rude people and i wasn't in the mood. the customer service people that work for those 2 co's have the worst jobs in the world. dealing with VERY PISSED off people for 8 hours a day. oh, after the numerous taxes were tacked on, the total was $22.14. i was one angry guy yest am. "did you ask the operater how much it would cost before you called?", "no, how much would that of cost me?", "$7.00". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

kevin

[GaroldShaffer]

Geoff,

GSM is a Euro standard for celluar that started (for Motorola) in Sweden back in Sept of 92. I worked on that project for 3 yrs (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif) Chances are Monique's
Motorola phone is not a GSM. What is she using?

Chances are that Cingular shares tower space with you current provider. They can do this because of the different Frequency bans. There used to be only two frequency bans back in the 80's & early 90's A&B.
Now the FCC has opened bans C, D, F ect that is why
in a lot of major cities now have 5 or 6 cellular providers now. Cingular might have better coverage by you. Can you see a tower near you? is there one small building or two at the base? can you see a set of antennas one above another? if so chances are they are sharing a tower.

- Garold