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- From: lvc@cbvox1.att.com
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- Subject: Interesting Statistic on Calls From Prisons
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 20:43:34 GMT
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- I work on a small part of the AT&T Automated Alternate Billing System,
- i.e., the speaker independent voice recognition call processing
- product that is being trialed in Seattle, WA, Jacksonville, FL,
- Phoenix, AZ and probalby a few other places by now.
-
- One of the customers of AABS is an RBOC; they connected telephones in
- prisons to the AABS. In this situation, the caller can only make a
- collect call, and the caller cannot reach an operator except if by
- some fluke a network failure occurs. One statistic which was
- suprising is the number of abandoned calls, i.e., the caller hung up
- on the system before their call was completed. 80% of all collect
- calls were abandonded, and 97% of those were from a prison. I'm
- guessing the large number of abandonded calls from prisons is due to
- prisoners trying to beat this system.
-
- The motivation for this feature was to (a) eliminate the abuse
- operators received from prisoners -- operators like this feature quite
- a lot by the way, and (b) prisoners have been known to have their
- friends get jobs as operators who can give them free calls.
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- Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox1!lvc or lvc@cbvox1.att.com
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