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- From: dec@alex.com (Doug Clinton)
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- Subject: Re: Itemised Bills
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- Organization: Alex Technologies Ltd
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:45:43 +0000
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- In article <931325141322@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk>, TREHARAJ@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk writes:
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- |> Could anybody explain what modifications BT would need to carry out in
- |> order to supply the residential customer with a fully itemised bill?
- |> Why is it that Mercury can do so?
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- BT would almost certainly have to install a very large amount of extra
- mass storage in order to log every all to provide fully itemised
- bills. Mercury can manage it because they have far fewer customers
- (probably one or two orders of magnitude) which means they do not have
- to store as much data.
-
- Regards,
- Doug
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