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From: Colin Plumb <colin@array.uucp>
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Subject: Re: Answer Supervision on International Calls
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In article <10246@accuvax.nwu.edu> rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc
Madison) writes:

> 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.

Perhaps they've found international answer supervision to be just a trifle
flaky, so they apply a generous timeout to catch those cases?
     
    
Colin

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