03-22-2003, 08:37 AM
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Customer Help Number Is Really Sex Line
submitted by geckogekko
ATLANTA - They may expect Southern charm, but some BellSouth Internet
customers
found the service was a little too friendly when they called a toll-free
number
listed in the phone book.
The number for a phone sex operation was mistakenly printed in most of the 50
million residential phone books the company sent out in the past year.
In previous years, BellSouth's White Pages listed the number for its Internet
services line as 1-800-4DOTNET. In the 2002 books, the company decided to put
the corresponding numerals, but botched one number.
The mistake was caught Feb. 13 when a customer complained, BellSouth
spokesman
David Rogers said this week. Residential phone books sent out since then have
been corrected.
The wrong number was listed in the front customer guide section of the White
Pages, Rogers said. However, the correct number was still under the
appropriate
heading in the business listings, he said.
BellSouth had considered buying the phone sex operation's number to avoid
confusion with its customers, but abandoned that idea, Rogers said.
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