Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!samsung!umich!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: das@cs.ucla.edu (David Smallberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Automated Collect Calling Message-ID: <11414@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 28 Aug 90 01:38:05 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 22 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 601, Message 4 of 13 In article <11309@accuvax.nwu.edu> bill writes: >What is this "Automated Collect Calling?" >[Moderator's Note: ... The calling party records his name; the person >who is being asked to pay for the call hears the recorded message and >accepts or rejects the call. ...] "Rejects" has been what I've done both times I've received these calls. Neither time could I understand the recorded voice of whoever was calling me! The two occasions were widely separated in time, and the voices were different, so their having the wrong number seems unlikely. Have other people had trouble with unintelligible recordings? And why is there no option to replay the name, in case you miss it the first time? And what happens if a non-English speaker answers the phone? In areas where automated collect calls are implemented, can one make a collect call using a live person for situations like the last one? David Smallberg, das@cs.ucla.edu, ...!{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!cs.ucla.edu!das