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Re: Busy Connect


From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol () nacs net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:36:46 -0500

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 02:07:48PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
I would complain to the FCC. Presumably, the customer is dialing the number
with their modem, and the modem isn't responding the the message "do you
want to busy connect for 75 cents".  Yet they are getting the busy connect
service and presumably are charged the 75 cents to "busy connect" without
their approval.

Nahh... I doubt it.

You'd hope that they default to NOT doing it unless people specifically asked
for it to be done...

Ameritech offers the same service, and I've only been charged for the times
I've actually used the feature. If I hang up, I don't get charged. I have to
believe BellSouth works the same way, although I could be wrong.

-- 
Steve Sobol sjsobol () nacs net (AKA support () nacs net and abuse () nacs net)

"Can you look out the window, without your shadow getting in the way"
   --Sarah McLachlan - "Building a Mystery"



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