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- From: mcnally@wsl.dec.com (Mike McNally)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: 1-800-CALL-ATT vs. LEC intra-LATA LD
- Message-ID: <telecom13.44.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:26:29 GMT
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- Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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- I just c alled my voice mailbox to check voice mail (it's in 415, I'm
- in 408) and as I listened to the "Thank you for using Pacific Bell"
- recording I though of the recent thread concerning intra-LATA long
- distance. On a whim, I decided to try 1-800-CALL-ATT to see if I
- could force ATT to carry the call instead. (PacBell won't let 10288
- work for such calls; you get a recording.) It worked.
-
- I wonder which is cheaper? I billed both calls to my DEC-issued ATT
- card, so I'll never know.
-
-
- Mike + Software + Digital Equipment + Western Software + mcnally@
- McNally + Laborer + Corporation + Laboratory + wsl.dec.com
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: I've noticed that when an intra-LATA call is placed
- here via AT&T because they were more or less forced into handling it
- due to it being on their calling card (or via Easy Reach, etc) the
- billing for same will come on the AT&T portion of the Illinois Bell
- bill, with a statement saying 'call handled on behalf of Illinois Bell
- by AT&T'. It is almost as though they are saying, "we cannot legally
- handle this call as AT&T, but we can act as agents for Illinois Bell
- and handle it for them." I think AT&T functions like a 'reseller' or
- open-ended (no defined customer base) aggregator for the local telcos,
- and pays the telcos for calls which are 'rightfully' the telco's to
- handle. In many cases, they may just let the local telco handle the
- whole thing but at AT&T rates. I suspect the same arrangement is in
- effect in everywhere with the telco of record for that territory. PAT]
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