Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request From: sbrack@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Steven S. Brack) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: MCI ... March 18 and More Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 18:17:26 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 36 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 167, Message 8 of 11 In article SJS132@psuvm.psu.edu (Steve Shimatzki) writes: > Would it be possible to use Call Forwarding, to call long distance, and > not pay for it? Heres the Scenario: I call a friend who is right > between me and an area that is LD for me. His number then forwards > to another number, but into the LD area. Do I get the local call, or > billed for the LD number that it was forwarded to? What if I did > this with a few people, and forwared a forwareded call? If it is > possible, is there any disadvantages to it? (ie, poor quality call; > Limited use; lots of people involved?) My uncle recently moved from GTE territory to Ohio Bell territory. This had the unfortunate side-effect of making the calls he gets from GTE territory toll calls (1+7D). So, what he did was have a second line installed to my house, which he uses only as a forwarding line to his other number. As it works out, he ends up saving money (very little) and his clients can call him without any extra phone charge. Needless to say, this situation is only cost effective to to the current turf war between Ohio Bell and GTE in northwest Ohio. There are literally areas in Toledo where toll calls are required for distances as short as 3/4 mile. Incidently, until Judge Green's decision, my house did not have any sort of demark, just the house wires nutted together with Bell's wires. Steven S. Brack sbrack@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu sbrack@ewf.eng.ohio-state.edu (Avoid sending here, if possible) [Moderator's Note: You mention your uncle is saving a little money each month from this arrangement. Have the savings yet been sufficient to amoritze, or pay for the initial installation cost of the line being permanently forwarded and for the monthly charge for the phone sitting there doing nothing but forwarding calls? PAT]