Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 9:24:34 EDT From: KATH MULLHOLAND Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Billed Busy Signals Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 295, Message 6 of 9 Lines: 15 Jack Rickard asked about billed busy signals. Sprint tells us that they have answer supervision wherever they are able to obtain feature group D lines. This covers about 95% of the country. This doesn't guarantee perfection, I guess, because they also say that busy signals lasting longer than thirty seconds will be billed. Can you time your modem to hang up a little quicker? We use Sprint and two other long distance carriers, and haven't noticed that any one carrier bills for a higher percentage of short calls than another. Kath Mullholand UNH Durham, NH