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From: unhd!unhtel!paul@uunet.uu.net (Paul S. Sawyer)
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Subject: Source Needed For 900 Pricing
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In article <10872@accuvax.nwu.edu> levin@bbn.com (Joel B. Levin)
writes:

>The charges do indeed seem to be determined by the "exchange" digits,
>both from what is said on that recording, and from some of the rate
>schedule information that has been presented here in past months for
>900 services from various companies.

At one time this seemed to be so, maybe when it was all AT&T, but now
any 900 number seems to be able to be priced as the end user wants,
within (very few) limits imposed by laws, tariffs, and/or carrier
policies.

We need to price these calls for cost allocation to departments, and
for customer (student) billing.  At first, the software assumed .50
for the first minute, .35 for each additional minute (weren't those
the good old days?).  When 5.00 per call, 2.00 per min., etc. calls
started appearing, we noticed that pricing was consistant by exchange,
and could bill fairly accurately that way.  Soon, we noticed that
consistency by exchange was no longer....  

Does anyone know of a source of 900 pricing that could be used to
price these calls in a timely manner?  We now wait for billing tapes,
which themselves have up to two-month old calls, putting us up to
three months behind on billing for these calls.  (No, we don't wish to
block these or any types of calls....)  


Paul S. Sawyer
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