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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 02:28:28 -0500
- From: shri%unreal@cs.umass.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Sad to Say, Telemarketing Works
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 6, Message 9 of 10
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- In article <telecom13.2.6@eecs.nwu.edu> siegman@sierra.stanford.edu
- writes:
-
- > proposal: Enact legislation requiring that all telemarketing calls
- > come with Caller-ID from a uniquely designated area code prefix, like
- > 600, 700, whatever. No freedom of speech issues are involved; the
-
- Oh yes. That is a good idea. Placing the onus on a business to
- identify themselves to the law is very implmentable as well.
-
- Also with just a tiny modification to the CNID concept (no
- additional cost) instead of a number, the company name would be
- delivered.
-
- In most cases an LCD with alphanumeric display with say only the
- ITA2 or Baudot char set should not be any more expensive that
- currently used digit displays. The modems part etc could remain the
- same, and the phone companies can make some money out of delivering a
- 12 letter alphanumeric ... enough perhaps (is it?) to have them do the
- software changes needed to their COs.
-
- A couple of days back, I caught the tail end of Bob Beckel (sp?)
- sitting in for Larry King on CNN. On the show was the small-biz owner
- who (guess its her) had filed that suit, and one Ray Kolker introduced
- as a Dialler manufacturer. He was pretty forceful in suggesting that
- there are better way available in technology today "such as of the
- type of Caller-ID", which can deal better.
-
- I have time and again thought up ideas on similar lines, but each
- time I am reminded that all these are going to be a "little difficult"
- to do till SS7 reaches all COs and is nationwide.
-
- Is it not the case that a lion's share of telemarketing is across
- state lines to benefit from the lower IXC rates?
-
- Of course, then telemarketeers would simply call from that small
- state near the Bahamas where the tarot readers used to live :-) Might
- even be cheaper. (Freely allowing cross talk of ideas between various
- threads I read in the past year..) their neutral-accented sale-droids
- could be in the safe vicinity of the Air Command, with all calls piped
- to the bahamas, and coming in from there right at dinner time, and
- your CNID box says "International Call". The Phone Company might even
- encourage this with a discount, like apparently they did in when .. Oh
- well ... :-)
-
-
- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu, shri@iucaa.ernet.in )
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