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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:29:39 GMT
- From: houle@nmt.edu (Paul Houle)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Third Party Billing
- Message-ID: <telecom12.856.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 856, Message 3 of 13
- Lines: 28
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- In article <telecom12.851.3@eecs.nwu.edu> rick@ricksys.lonestar.org
- writes:
-
- > Why don't people get Calling Cards?
-
- > Why don't they understand that if they are here and nobody is home
- > then how can anyone tell if they are charging it to their own phone,
- > or their enemy, or something they pulled out of the air?
-
- > The real question is why do the phone companies continue to allow
- > third party billing?
-
- > I guess it is because they can always stick someone with the bill.
-
- Plus with the proliferation of alternative operator services,
- it has become very easy to abuse third party billing. I've heard
- stories of AOSes billing calls to drug abuse hotlines, police
- stations, telephone company test numbers and just about anything else.
- One time, a phriend of mine used an AOS to bill a call to a tone
- sweep, and the operator said to "Hold on for a minute so we can verify
- this ...", but it seems that she never did verify it since she let the
- call go through (after waiting a minute).
-
- It's just really disgusting to see how COCOTS and AOSes not
- only degrade service to honest people, but also allow dishonest people
- to sock anybody with the expense of a call.
-
-