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- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Itemised Bills
- Cc: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:25:50 +0000
- Message-ID: <9301251625.AA15303@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- :|> 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?
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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
-
- It's almost certain BT already log in detail, and just generated the
- 'metred usage' at billing time to a) save paper, or b) chance their
- arm - depending on your belief in their honesty.
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- G
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