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From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: telephone bill bug
Message-ID: <437@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-May-85 15:50:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: qantel.437
Posted: Thu May 16 15:50:05 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 18-May-85 02:06:31 EDT
References: <386@sii.UUCP>
Reply-To: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA
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Summary: 

In article <386@sii.UUCP> mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett) writes:
>Recently, I received an AT&T bill that had the following sort of
>entries in it:
>
>No.   -Date-    -Time-    --Number--    Code   -Min-   -Amount-
> 10.  Mar 12    1159PM    617 xxx-xxxx   ND       1        .18
> 11.  Mar 13    1200AM    617 yyy-yyyy   NDM
>                CONVERSATION MINUTES     1443           253.10
> 12.  Mar 13    1210AM    616 zzz-zzzz   ND       6        .70
>
If you have Three-Way-Calling, you could have put the 24-hour call on
hold while you made the 6-minute call, then gone back to complete the
first call.

It used to be, on old telephone central offices, that the
number-of-minutes counter only went up to 999, and if you called more
than 999 minutes, the counter would recycle to 0.  Thus, if you made a
1002 minute call, you would only be charged for 3 minutes.
-- 

Steve Vance
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Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA