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From: jimmy@icjapan.info.com (Jim Gottlieb)
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Subject: Re: Being Charged For No-Answers
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Date: 17 Mar 90 05:59:50 GMT
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In article <5181@accuvax.nwu.edu> bukys@cs.rochester.edu writes:

>I have recently discovered that my department is being charged for
>long-distance phone calls after 4 rings, whether there is an answer or
>not.  The University has a ROLM phone system internally.  It does
>"least cost" routing to a number of long-distance carriers.

A lot of these problems stems from the fact that telcos will normally
refuse to give answer supervision except to real carriers.  I have
never quite understood why.  What do they have to lose by providing
it?

But since they will not provide any indication of when a called number
has answered, most private telephone systems have no choice but to
establish a time period, after which, they assume the call has been
answered.


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