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From: CER2520@ritvax.bitnet (Curtis E. Reid)
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Subject: Proposed Tariff for Billing Name & Address Service by NY Tel
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Date: 26 Oct 89 18:14:00 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 474, message 1 of 11

I read a notice of proposed tariff filing for billing name and address
service by New York Telephone in the legal section of the newspaper
yesterday.  I quote:

Notice is hereby given that a proposed tariff has been filed with the
Public Service Commission, to be effective December 1, 1989, to
introduce Billing Name and Address (BNA) Service.

BNA Service is the provision of the complete billing name, street
address, city or town, state and zip code for a telephone number
assigned by New York Telephone.

BNA Service is provided for the sole purpose of permitting the
customer to bill its telecommunications services to its end users.

                [ Rates shown here ]

Further, an amendment to the offering of Non-Published Service has
been filed to specify that BNA information on a non-published number
will be provided to a BNA subscriber when a call utilizing the BNA
subscriber's service originates from that non-published number.

End quote.  Now, my question is this similar to reverse directory that
readers has been discussing here?  Or, is this similar to the way that
AT&T pass the number to another telephone company for the purpose of
billing?  This tariff is a bit unclear as to what the real purpose is
for.

                        Curtis Reid
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