Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
kudos:1 Reviews:
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| Break it up. Apparently Verizon is using the same technique that the Bell Operating Companies used shortly after the Carter Phone legal decision in 1969. Whenever a customer placed an order to install Voice Connecting Arrangements used to connect a privately owned PABX System, the local Bell marketing office would send out a team of dirt-bags to un-sell the competitors service. I know, because I worked for one of the first competitors. They were forced out of business long before the 1984 AT&T breakup. That anti-competitive practice was one of the reasons that the Justice Department broke up the old AT&T (The old Bell System). Even before the Bell System was broken up each Bells Operating Company was forced to set up a separate department originally called the Centralized Operations Group, (COG) to handle request for new service from competitors. Furthermore the COG was forbidden from competing with competitors. It seems that Verizon needs to be required to set up a similar arrangement for customers wishing to transfer their telephone number to a VOIP Service Provider. The customer would sign a revocable limited power of attorney allowing the VOIP Service Provider to act as agent to transfer their phone number to the VOIP Service Provider. That way the customer would not have to contact the Local Exchange Carrier.
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