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- From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- Subject: Re: Itemised Bills
- Message-ID: <C1FF16.G18@exnet.co.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:17:29 GMT
- References: <931325141322@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.144543.5802@alex.com>
- Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK
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- In article <1993Jan25.144543.5802@alex.com> dec@alex.com (Doug Clinton) writes:
- >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.
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- BT is reputed to keep details of all calls on fast storage for six
- months for dubious purposes; I'm sure Mr Parnoid^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Toal
- (B^>) will provide some illumination here...
-
- Damon
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