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- From: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Itemised Bills
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.101641.263@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
- References: <1993Jan25.144543.5802@alex.com> <1993Jan25.165736.21231@aston.ac.uk> <C1GDGD.Dxo@fulcrum.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:16:41 GMT
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- In article <C1GDGD.Dxo@fulcrum.co.uk>, davidw@fulcrum.co.uk (David Wilkinson) writes:
- ...
- |> I suspect that one problem is the size of the disk that comes with
- |> exchanges such as System X. All the billing data is dumped to that,
- |> and then downloaded to a remote site periodically (every hour, I
- |> think) over X.25. BT insist, however, that they musn't lose any
- |> billing data, even if their comms links go down for a long period (>
- |> 1day?) - this effectively limits the amount of data that can
- |> physically be stored, and hence the 10 unit restriction.
-
- But I think we have been told on this group that if you dispute the metered
- unit on a bill, BT sometimes send you a full list of all the calls. If
- true, this implies that they must store the data somewhere, even if it is
- not online to the billing system.
-
- Is it true or not? Can anybody say with certainty that BT have
- retrospectively produced a fully itemised bill?
-
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- Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
- University of Cambridge Computer Lab
- Cambridge UK
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