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- From: david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
- Subject: Re: Billing Pulses, Tytel Phone
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.020801.19265@cs.uow.edu.au>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
- References: <Bxxpw5.EM3@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU>
- Distribution: aus
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:08:01 GMT
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- stuarta@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (Stuart Andrews) writes:
- >It works by counting local calls at one local fee (you tell it the fee
- >= $0.25 for home phone) and multiplying billing pulses by the local fee
- >to establish how much STD calls cost...
-
- As far as I know home phones do not get billing pulses (but I could be wrong).
-
- >The plot thickens... The phone also asks for the area code in which is is
- >operating so that when it catches you dialing a STD code, it can use
- >that and an internal data-base to work out the distance and thus the call
- >charge.
-
- This is, of course, impossible :-) It needs more than your area code.
-
- For example, a call from (042) 90 xxxx to (042) 3x xxxx [Helensburgh to Kiama]
- you do not dial the STD code (as they are both the same) and yet this call is
- charged at STD rates. Even if you did dial the STD code it would not help as
- a call from (042) 90 xxxx to (042) 26 xxxx is a local call.
-
- Similarly, a call from (02) 456 xxxx [Berowra] to (02) 520 xxxx [Engadine] is
- charged at the Community call rate as the two zones are not adjacent.
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