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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:06:25 GMT
- From: gomez@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (JL Gomez)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Foreign Exchange Installation Alternatives?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.862.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Arizona State University
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 862, Message 3 of 8
- Lines: 39
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- Is there any alternatives to having a phone line installed in a
- different area code in which you live in?
-
- I've called my PacBell representative and they offer foreign exchange
- installation for a hefty initial installation fee and heavy monthly
- fee.
-
- One alternative someone mentioned is to use call forwarding but that
- will involve putting the line in someone else's home.
-
- What about a 900 phone number? By the way, this is for a friend's
- BBS. Thanks for the info.
-
-
- gomez@enxuha.eas.asu.edu
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: He could put in a 900 line and set the charge for
- calls to ZERO. The caller would pay nothing, but your friend would
- still have to pay the carriage fee to whichever provider he got the
- service from, and at 25-30 cents *per minute* this probably would not
- be any less expensive than FX. If he wants to use call forwarding, the
- phone could always hang on a wall in an answering service; he'd have
- to pay the service some fee (maybe $10 or $15 per month) to leave it
- there. If he goes with call forwarding, make sure the line doing the
- forwarding gets *untimed, unmeasured local service* to the BBS; if
- not, then this alternative will turn out to be more expensive than
- planned also. There is also a telco service in many places called
- Remote Call Forwarding. This amounts to a line terminated in the
- distant CO which is set to permanently forward calls at the DID rate
- in effect. But these are rarely if ever tariffed for residential use,
- and if it is a business line then the chances of having unmeasured
- local service outboound from it is not too likely. Personally, I'd
- stick with FX if he insists he wants to pay the phone bill for his
- users, or else go with an 800 number, and pay those rates. There is no
- inexpensive way to do what he wants; telco *always* gets their money
- regardless of your configuration. PAT]
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