Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 05:47:30 GMT From: wright@ais.org (Carl Wright) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: IDDD From a Cellular Phone Message-ID: Organization: UMCC 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 479, Message 5 of 8 Lines: 25 jim.hickstein@icdwest.teradyne.com (Jim Hickstein) writes: > I hear someone nails you for 2x airtime for "conference" calls > which clearly use only one radio channel. Let us hope this is not a > vision of the future. This is probably because the conference call is represented by two or more toll ticket records off their switch. When they process millions of records a month and often millions a day, they find it alot of work to get them together and then determine how much time was actually used by each caller even though the same caller was recorded on both toll tickets. The programming is complicated. The amount of processing is significant. They are probably have the programming wrong to begin with. The switch manufacturers are changing their toll outputs to make this billing easier for the carriers. This will eventually ease the problem. Carl Wright | Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. Internet: wright@ais.org | 2350 Green Rd., #160 Voice: 1 313 995 5590 EST | Ann Arbor, MI 48105