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- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:21:18 GMT
- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: 25 Years of 800 Service
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- Thomas Lapp <thomas%mvac23.uucp@udel.edu> writes:
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-
- > (the rest of this section talks about AT&T is facing competition
- > from other LD carriers, as well as from resellers who sometimes
- > use AT&T's name when making sales, causing headaches from
- > purchasers who think that they are getting AT&T follow-up
- > service as well. It mentions how the local companies are
- > getting into the act as well for intrastate (sic) phone
- > service (I think they actually meant intra-LATA?), since
- > Delaware has a huge credit-card banking industry which
- > relies heavily on 800 service.)
-
- No, Intra*state* calls require only dealing with the LECs and with the
- State PUCs. But since LATAs seem to cross state lines as often as not,
- they probably *aren't* doing specificly "Intra LATA" service.
-
- > Finally, a side article discusses how small businesses are using 800
- > service by profiling several of the companies. However, the headline
- > is somewhat ironic, since the title is "With 800, Business Has Got
- > Your Number" (followup page says "Call 800: Business Has Your
- > (toll-free) number"). I was looking to see if there was anything in
- > the article about how businesses can get call detail on their 800
- > numbers, thus getting ANI from callers. But not a word about it. I
- > guess they didn't want to scare off the 800-using population too
- > much. :-).
-
- More likely, that aspect of it never even occured to the staffer.
-
-
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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