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RE: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls
From: "Brian Johnson" <bjohnson () drtel com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:29:00 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of David Lesher Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:31 AM To: nanog list Subject: Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD TollsPardon my ignorance, but don't most phone companies require10 digit dialingfor long-distance. We have similar situations in the ruralarea I live in,but the customers know if they dial more than 7 digits, itWILL be longdistance.No. If you are in an overlay area, such as MD, parts of NoVA and many other states; then 10D is required for ALL local calls MD does have 11D required for toll; but many states do not, inc. Virginia. (This topic is the "vs vs emacs" of the telco world, btw. I'm strongly in the 11D for toll camp, but others I respect [Hi Mr. Mayor] feel it's a PITA to dial 10D on every call..) This may have been inspired by ISP-set POP #'s. In a case I know of; a WebTV user did the setup via the 800#; and got told "867-5309" was local and it was automagically loaded into the WebTV box. 90 days later, the phone bill arrived...
Now on this one, throw the book at WebTV. If you are gonna make the settings for the customer, you are responsibe for the results of your actions. But, of course, I'm sure they have a disclaimer saying that it is your responsibility to insure the number selected is a local call. - Brian J
Current thread:
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls, (continued)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Jonathan M. Slivko (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Jonathan M. Slivko (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Greg Boehnlein (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls David Barak (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Eric A. Hall (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Andreas Ott (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Robert Bonomi (Aug 18)
- RE: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Brian Johnson (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls David Lesher (Aug 18)
- RE: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Brian Johnson (Aug 18)
- RE: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Steven J. Sobol (Aug 18)
- RE: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Brian Johnson (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Jared Mauch (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Stephen Sprunk (Aug 18)
- RE: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Kristal, Jeremiah (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Robert Bonomi (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls David Barak (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls David Lesher (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls John Levine (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Stephen Sprunk (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls David Barak (Aug 18)