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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: bothersome phone calls
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Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 13:56:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 16 13:56:13 1984
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It was my impression that the justification for charging for having an 
unlisted number was that the telco incurred more "information" calls
as a result of people not finding your name & number in the book. This
was prior to the current practice of charging callers for "information"
calls, which I believe is now just about universal. This latter should
eliminate the costs the telcos used to justify charging the holder of
an unlisted number, right?

So how do they now justify charging you for NOT doing something; that
is, for not printing your name & number in the telephone books?

Will