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From: rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison)
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Subject: Re: Answer Supervision on International Calls
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Date: 30 Jul 90 10:11:28 GMT
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In article <9925@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Higdon writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 499, Message 7 of 14

>David E. A. Wilson <david@cs.uow.edu.au> writes:
>> Do international calls have answer supervision? Does it depend on
>> which telco is responsible for the subscriber in the USA?

>It may be that your local situation is not handling the supervision
>properly for billing purposes. The local telco is getting the answer
>indication back from the US; you should ask them why the problem with
>your bills.

When I was in Australia in 1987, I observed that international calls,
as I think with other calls (at least STD calls), from pay stations,
were charged the initial 30c rate if allowed to ring more than a
certain number (something on the order of one minute), whether or not
answered.  However, they seemed to grab the coins immediately on
connection if the call completed.

My guess: they get answer supervision just fine, but charge you anyway
if you wait too long for a connection.


Linc Madison   =   rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu