Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 06:40:10 GMT From: "Marc T. Kaufman" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Per Line Blocking? Message-ID: Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 288, Message 7 of 13 Lines: 25 In article Robert J Woodhead writes: > So why not do the following: Phone customers are allowed to set a > PRICE at which they are willing to sell their caller-ID information, > and Caller-ID customers are allowed to set a price they will PAY for > Caller-ID information. > Caller-ID is then only provided when the price a CID customer will pay > is >= the price asked by the phone customer. If it is, then the phone > company charges the Caller-ID customer, delivers the CID info, and > credits the phone customer's bill with the fee just charged to the > Caller-ID user (less a percentage for the phone company, of course). I like it. And there's more. Once we get individualized pricing, we can set the price to receive a call. After midnight, or from a telemarketer, I would set a higher price to trip the ringer than I would for calls received during the day or from friends. Might as well make telemarketing profitable -- for us. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)