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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:20:27 GMT
- From: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: SS7 Links Fron CA to NY via AT&T?
- Message-ID: <telecom13.17.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 17, Message 3 of 9
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- >> You don't seriously believe such a state of affairs will stand, do you
- >> John? The PUC will order that numbers not be delivered, period. I
- >> can even see the potential for lawsuits against Pac Bell over this.
-
- > But the PUC cannot order this, just as it cannot prevent any carrier
- > from passing realtime ANI to end users.
-
- Why? Federal law? What's so special about SS7? Has it been enacted
- into law by Congress or the FCC?
-
- I don't see anything prohibiting a sufficiently provoked PUC (or the
- state legislature backing the PUC) from doing any of the following
- (except perhaps common sense on the part of the PUC? Naaaah. Not if
- the voters are out for blood.) downright silly things:
-
- - Prohibiting the inclusion of any equipment that uses SS7 in the rate base,
- or otherwise fiddling with the formulas so the only profitable
- thing to do with it is decommission and destroy it.
- - Prohibiting the use of SS7, especially for in-state calls, with anything
- but the phone company's own customer service number in any
- "originating number" or "billing information" field.
- - Requiring a new tariff for every SS7 packet transmitted.
- - Making all phone service flat-rate and prohibiting charges for
- individual calls, thereby eliminating the need for per-call
- "billing information" except for one billing number for each
- in-state phone company. Local phone companies eat charges from
- MCI, Sprint, AT&T, etc.
- - Abolishing phone numbers (in-state) and using names and addresses.
- - Threatening the phone companies that if they don't quit sending
- phone numbers out of state, the PUC will set the rate for local
- calls at negative five dollars a minute. Customers will then figure
- out that two more lines with a call permanently connected between
- them is better than a welfare check, and that pretty soon they can
- work up to thousands of lines.
-
-
- Gordon L. Burditt sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon
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