Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!rutgers!texbell!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T's ACUS Service Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 89 01:02:28 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 30 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 511, message 5 of 9 In article , klb@lzaz.att.com (Kevin Blatter) writes: > Unless the PBX is connected to the CO via ISDN lines, there is no way > for the PBX to know if a call is completed or not. Not true. Hotel/motel PBXs have been doing this for decades. The most common way for a CO to signal to the PBX that the call has been answered is a battery reversal on the trunk (not very high tech, but such is life). The means is there; the question is whether or not they make use of it. > I was talking to my sister who is a college senior and they are doing > this sort of thing on her campus (BYU) as well, so it seems to be a > trend that is sweeping across college campuses. This seems to be the order of the day since the big breakup. Anytime some slimeballs see a concentrated, easy pickens market to skim from, a new "service" is born. Remember how we were now supposed to be able to *choose* who provided our services? > She makes all of her > LD calls at pay phones or at friends' homes where she can choose her > LD company. It seems that more and more, service providers are trying to make sure our choices are limited so they can sock it to us. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !