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Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls
From: Todd Vierling <tv () duh org>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:42:30 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Robert Bonomi wrote:
To use 1+ for "toll alerting", in locales where intra-NPA can be toll, and inter-NPA can be local, you have to incur one of those sets of increased expenses. And the 'inconveniences' to the customer.
Not really. Billable status of a call is known up front in today's all-digital NANPA coverage area (to my knowledge, the last mechanical and/or electromechanical switch disappeared before 2002, and it was somewhere in rural Quebec). In fact, I ran into a telco recently in a 10D/1+10D dialing area that -- only if the customer subscribed to the unlimited domestic LD plan -- allowed dialing any US number without the leading 1 as simply 10D. Conversely, some jurisdictions are very strict about use of the leading 1 to indicate toll status thanks to localized court cases establishing that "hidden" tolls are a Bad Thing. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv () duh org> <tv () pobox com> <todd () vierling name>
Current thread:
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls, (continued)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Robert Bonomi (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 Jeff Shultz (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Barry Shein (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Eric A. Hall (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls John R Levine (Aug 20)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls John Levine (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Robert Bonomi (Aug 18)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Stephen Sprunk (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Lou Katz (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Henry Yen (Aug 20)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Todd Vierling (Aug 20)
- Robert Bonomi, you're a moron (was Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls) Todd Vierling (Aug 20)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Steve Sobol (Aug 21)