[Novalug] phones in bogus names

[Tux subscriber Dave Aronson]

Ed James [mailto:edjames at greenbelt.com] writes:

 >     Actually, my service is in a bogus name anyway.  When I got married
 > decades ago, I had never had a phone in my name, so the PhoneCo wanted
 > to charge me a deposit. My wife HAD had a phone in HER name, so we got
 > a phone with no deposit by using her name.  I'm divorced, she's
 > remarried, and that name is different now.  But the PhoneCo gets a
 > check each month, so it's happy.

I've had phone service in a name that never existed.  Back when I ran a BBS, named (originally) TIDMADT, I asked the telco for a line for my roomie, BB Tidmadt.  So, the white pages listed "TIDMADT, BB".

-Dave

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