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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 23:12:17 -0800
- From: henry@ads.com (Henry Mensch)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Personal 800 Numbers
- Reply-To: henry@ads.com
- Message-ID: <telecom12.846.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 846, Message 9 of 13
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- Tansin A. Darcos & Company <0005066432@mcimail.com> wrote:
-
- > AT&T will offer a regular 800 number, for $15 a month plus usage which
- > is, if I'm not mistaken, a flat 31c/Minute. This ties into an
- > ordinary phone number. There is a charge of $30 to install it.
-
- Is this really the personal 800 tariff? I'm using Pac*Bell's personal
- 800 service and I'm only paying $5/month and $0.25/minute (billed in
- six-second intervals). The service is actually provided by Sprint;
- they bill the Sprint $15/month fee on the bill I get for usage, and a
- credit appears simultaneously. I pay the $5/month to Pac*Bell. This
- gives you a real 800 number, and not one of those bogus "call this 800
- number and then dial this extra code" crapola.
-
- I get the listing of callers (with phone number, city, date, time and
- length of call) in my personal 800 Sprint bill.
-
- My only gripe is that my number is either very close to someone else's
- number, or was recycled too soon, because I get bills with calls that
- weren't authorized (I know this because I've not given out the number
- to anyone ... I use it myself for one specific purpose). The total
- cost of these calls has been less than $0.15 over the past few months,
- so this isn't a big deal for me ... but it might be for someone else.
-
-
- # henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc. / <henry@ads.com>
- # for information on the league for programming freedom,
- # write to lpf@uunet.uu.net
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