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Phone sex number mistakenly listed as BellSouth service line
By Miami Herald, via AP
18/03/2003
ATLANTA - The number for a phone sex operation was mistakenly listed as a BellSouth customer service line 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 Tuesday. 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. He did not say why.
BellSouth is the dominant local phone provider in the South. It has 44 million customers in nine states and 14 countries.
Read the full article at The Miami Herald
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