Moving hassles part 1: phone service

I called to establish phone service with the company I had in Lancaster when I lived here before. That company shall remain nameless, but its initials are MCI.
MCI apparently cross-trains all of its customer service representatives as telemarketers. Every three minutes, the person on the other end of the phone was trying to get me to add something to the basic service package. McDonald’s supersizing front counter jockeys aren’t that persistent.