Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.au!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Horsfall) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: This Is a Recorded Ripoff... Message-ID: Date: 28 Jul 89 06:39:26 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Dave Horsfall Organization: Alcatel STC Australia, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 262, message 6 of 11 Printed in the Sydney Morning Herald, 11/7/89 (that's 11 July 89 :-) ``Paying her bill at an otherwise-satisfactory motel on the Southern Highlands, a Fairy Meadow reader found she was charged 60c for a local phone call from her room. She pointed out that the call she made had not been answered, but was shown a computer print-out showing she had spoken for 30 seconds. She protested that when she dialled, all she got ws a recorded Telecom service saying she couldn't dial STD on that phone. "Ah," said the manager triumphantly, "but you listened to the message."'' --- I know that you do get gouged by hotels for phone calls, but don't they even check for call supervision? Is it possible there is no indication that the call failed, and a recorded announcement is mistaken for the called party answering? -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz dave%stcns3.stc.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.AU!dave