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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!edscom!ian
- From: ian@edscom.demon.co.uk (Ian Green)
- Subject: Re: Itemised Bills
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.154908.22554@edscom.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
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- References: <1993Jan26.102000.11042@alex.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:49:08 GMT
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- Doug Clinton (dec@alex.com) wrote:
- : In that case the reason I had always assumed for not being able to get
- : a fully itemised bill is wrong and I can only assume that BT simply do
- : not want to offer their customers a service (surprise, surprise).
-
- Very probably! All of the discussion so far has centred around the technical
- issues of BT providing itemised bills. I suspect that it is the business
- issues that are overriding tho'. The question their management will ask is
- "What's in it for us?" In other words, "if we spend all of this money
- providing itemised billing, how much extra revenue will it generate for us -
- or maybe how much business will it stop from going elsewhere?"
-
- Given that the only serious competition is currently coming from Mercury,
- and that the private user cannot, in general, connect to them directly, the
- answer is that there is little reason for them to implement it. All of the
- shouting and screaming from private customers won't bother them 'cos much of
- their revenue comes from businesses (who probably have PBXs with call loggers)
- and, coicidentally, that is where the Mercury competition is strongest.
-
- Now, if someone starts a direct-connect-to-customer service that provides
- true call logging, cheap long distance calls etc. *that* may cause a shake-up.
-
- Anyone out there got a few million pounds of capital they want to invest? :-)
-
- Ian.
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