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From: dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson)
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Subject: Re: Billing For Forwarded Calls
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Date: 27 Oct 90 13:03:15 GMT
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In article <14047@accuvax.nwu.edu>, cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes:

> On a normal phone bill, you see calls "to" if you dial direct, and
> "from ... to" (or vice versa) for third-party or credit-card
> (calling-card) calls, and you get "[collect] from" if you accepted a
> collect call?

> Now if you call-forward to a number which is long-distance, you are to
> see the long-distance charge for a call from your phone to the phone
> where you are forwarding to.  How does this appear on your phone bill?

NJ Bell shows forwarded calls on the phone bill of the party who did
the forwarding.  The calls show up with the keyletter F in the left
margin of the detail bill.  (Other keyletters are used, alone or in
combination, to indicate, for example, an operator-assisted call, a
day-, evening-, or night-rate call.)  The letter F is listed in the
'explanation of symbols' section as 'a Forwarded call'.  They show the
forward-to number as the 'number called'.

A forwarded call produces no display at all on the Caller*ID display
of the party forwarding the call.  The reciepent of the call is shown
the number of the originating, not the forwarding party, with no
indication that the call was forwarded -- i.e. if I receive a call
from A who called B whose calls were forwarded to me, my Caller*ID
display shows A's number.


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