On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 01:30:18AM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
The Michigan Public Service Commission has launched an investigation into Ameritech's service quality. According to Ameritech, in August the estimated average repair time will be 115 hours (almost 5 days). Significantly up over previous years' average repair times of about a day (25-28 hours).
http://www.cis.state.mi.us/mpsc/comm/ameritech.htm
What I find interesting isn't Ameritech's long repair times, but how do providers promise 4 hour repair times when the dominant local loop provider takes over a day to fix something on a good day.
You're presuming they answer the phone. This has been the case for the past few years: Two weeks ago, I called Ameritech over a hicap repair issue. I spent 75 minutes on hold, only to get disconnected. After calling back, I spent 90 minutes on hold, only to get to an individual who transferred me. I was disconnected during the transfer. Indeed, we had to wake up the VP of another Ameritech division, in the middle of the night, to get his people to open a ticket on this circuit. That was the only way we got it looked at at all. Ameritech repair is useless. While living and working in Michigan, I frequently had to go to the PSC over stupid issues Ameritech should have been able to resolve quickly. --msa