Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: pcf@galadriel.british-telecom.co.uk (Pete French) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: UK->USA, Which Carrier? Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 89 09:34:59 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 32 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 369, message 5 of 6 In Message-ID: ..... >[Moderator's Note: Do you know whether or not the British Telecom subscriber >gets any choice in the matter? That is, can they indicate by any routing >code, or by going through an operator that they wish the call to be routed >over AT&T or over MCI? If a subscriber makes a collect call to the USA for >example, does whoever pays for the call get to select the international >carrier? Or are they stuck with whoever BT routes them on? PT] I am fairly sure that our subbys are stuck with whatever BTI decides to give them. I had never heard of MCI or Sprint until I started reading this group and even now I am not quite sure who they are - as far as I can make out they own the long bits of wire in the States rather than the short bits :-) Anyway - what difference does it make who handles the call ? Surely the end result is the same...the charges are, and I dont really care who owns the bits of wire. -Pete. (In no way representing my beloved employers...) -Pete French. | British Telecom Research Labs. | "The carefree days are distant now, Martlesham Heath, East Anglia. | I wear my memories like a shroud..." All my own thoughts (of course) | -SIOUXSIE [Moderator's Note: If BT is setting the rate, then absorbing whatever small differences there may be between inter-carrier rates via AT&T and the same from MCI, that's fine. If I accept a collect call in the United States from a friend (let's say vacationing in the UK), will the charge on my Illinois Bell bill be from BT or from MCI, or AT&T, or?? PT]