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- From: rob@sound.demon.co.uk (Robert J Barth)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!sound.demon.co.uk!rob
- Subject: Re: Itemised Bills
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:08:51 +0000
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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.
-
- As far as I remember (uk.telecom, around 12 months ago), BT *do* keep records
- of *all* calls made, on mass storage, so a reason for not giving fully
- itemised billing could either be that they want to save paper, or they don't
- trust their system..
-
- tai
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