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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Itemised Bills
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:57:36 GMT
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- Doug Clinton (dec@alex.com) wrote:
- : In article <931325141322@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk>, TREHARAJ@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk writes:
- : |> ==============================================================================
- : |> 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?
- :
- : 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.
-
- How much data?
- After all disk drives are not exactly expensive items.
- Also calculating the unit value for calls (and fudging the meter figure)
- must take up a fair amount of cpu time. (Is this done by the exchange processer,
- probably, due to charge advice, which mercury does not have)
-
- Also mercury started from scratch with one type of hardware.
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