17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Jim Choate writes:
To the best of my knowledge no phone company anywhere will allow a customer to purchase service without identifying themselves to the phone company. Please let me know if there is such a beast somewhere.
Hmm. Excuse the interruption into your conversation here, but I've signed up (in the past) for long-distance service under an assumed name, on a telephone line that I held in a different assumed name. At least in Cincinnati, OH, the phone company didn't (doesn't?) really care, as long as they had a place to send the bills. When they asked for my SSN, I simply told them I wouldn't give it to them, and offered my date-of-birth - which I lied about. They didn't mind.