Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: wnp@attctc.dallas.tx.us (Wolf Paul) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Directory Enquiries (UK) Message-ID: Date: 9 Sep 89 10:52:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: wnp@attctc.dallas.tx.us Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx Lines: 33 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 362, message 6 of 8 In article K.Hopkins%computer- science.nottingham.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk writes: >Here's a UK view of charging for DA calls. >....... >provided for us by default so we expect to be given it without charge. Most >people over here usually complain that BT is being immoral (yep, that's the >word they use) when they try charging for 192 as there is no other source >for the information 192 provides. While I can understand that argument, nonetheless it is flawed: not only **finding** a phone number, but **calling** a phone number is available only through a service the telco provides -- since making a phone call is otherwise impossible, should the telco be prohibited from charging for that service? Since driving a car is impossible unless you get one from a dealer or the manufacturer, should the dealer or manufacturer be required to provide it free of charge? >printing of the phone directory book. 192 calls from coin boxes should >still be free as the yobs have normally torn up the phone directory books >to use as bog roll. We can but dream. Again, I understand the sentiment, but why should the damage done by the "yobs" be paid for by the telco rather than you who wants to use the coin box? If the average Joe Citizen would not look the other way when the yobs ransack coin boxes (and other public facilities) we would not have such rampant vandalism (and I am by no means innocent of looking the other way, but I don't assume that the telco should have to pay because I look the other way). Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: {texbell, attctc, dalsqnt}!dcs!wnp DOMAIN: wnp@attctc.dallas.tx.us or wnp%dcs@texbell.swbt.com NOTICE: As of July 3, 1989, "killer" has become "attctc".