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- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 93 10:47 PST
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Apartment Security Stupidity
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- Albert Crosby <acrosby@uafhp.uark.edu> writes:
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- > If you blocked 900 numbers, 976 numbers (and I guess in this day and
- > age, 800 numbers) plus had no default LD carrier, is there any reason
- > such a line wouldn't be suitable for a security system?
-
- What about intraLATA calls not carried by an IXC? Does SWBT agree to
- block calls that generate revenue for itself? And what about carrier
- codes? I have a number of lines with no default carrier, but any
- company that allows casual calling is happy to put the call through
- and bill the number. How about charges for DA? How about charges for
- emergency intercept or verification placed through the SWBT operator?
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- Tell you what: you put an ordinary telephone set on any line that has
- dial tone one it from SWBT and let me have a crack at it. I'll take
- you to dinner if I cannot run up some kind of extra charge on it.
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- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115 | FAX:
- john@ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | 10288 0 700 FOR-A-MOO | +1 408 264 4407
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- [Moderator's Note: John points out the best reason of all for using a
- stand-alone unit instead of a POTS line. Even the most secure of the
- front door POTs lines still have little chinks in the armor for use by
- people who know what they are doing, and that is all it takes. PAT]
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