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From: DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Douglas Scott Reuben)
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Subject: Re: Billing For Forwarded Calls
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Carl Moore recently wrote about distinguishing "Call Forward" calls
from regular toll calls on your phone bill.

Some companies, New York Telephone for example, do indeed have
indicators next to the call "item" (the line that says when/where the
call was made).

On your average NYTel bill, a Call-Forward will be represented by a "
- ", and a Three-Way call will be represented by a " / ". (Since you
obviously aren't charged for getting a call via Call-Waiting, there is
no itemization for that...) I haven't seen one for Speed-Call, but
that's probably not all too necessary.

I've even noticed on NYTel, SNET, Pac*Bell and C&P Telephone (and
probably others too) that if you make a Calling Card or other operator
assisted call from certain hotels or hospitals, a "#" will appear next
to that item. This doesn't seem to work for all hotels, though,
perhaps only those which use AT&T's (or some Bell's) call-accounting
service(s)?

If you use AT&T, most BOCs will put a "*" (or is it a "C"?) next to a
line where you called AT&T and asked for credit. BOCs may do this on
their portion of the bill as well.

Are there any others that I failed to mention? (There are about six
symbols left unused. Maybe some BOC will figure out a use for them! :-) )


Doug

dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu
dreuben@wesleyan.bitnet


[Moderator's Note: There are several symbols the Bell telcos reserve
for use by AT&T, since they do the billing for Mother. Some of the
symbols indicate "Billed as part of Reach Out America, but here is
what the price would be otherwise", "evening discount rate", etc.  PAT]