Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU!SPGDCM From: SPGDCM@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Intra-lata credit calls Message-ID: <8706112109.AA03207@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 16:52:28 EDT Article-I.D.: jade.8706112109.AA03207 Posted: Thu Jun 11 16:52:28 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 09:48:41 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 34 Approved: telecom@buit1.bu.edu MSG:FROM: SPGDCM --UCBCMSA TO: NETWORK --NETWORK 06/11/87 13:52:27 To: NETWORK --NETWORK Network Address From: Doug Mosher Title: MVS/Tandem Systems Manager (415)642-5823 Office: Evans 257, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Subject: Intra-lata credit calls To: telecom@buit1.bu.edu The discontinuance of promotion of ATT long-distance credit cards by Regional companies still leaves unresolved how anyone is supposed to handle intra-lata long-distance calls. People still make them and need to charge them. For that matter, I have been sustainedly confused on the nature of intra-lata calls. Originally (the dawn of time for tel reorg, a few years ago) the competing ld carriers such as Sprint stated in their literature that their services were, I believe, "only for interstate calls". This has been changed, I believe, to "only for inter-lata calls". It always seemed to me that the equipment itself did not screen out intra-lata calls and if you wanted to do it you went ahead and did it and paid the ld carrier for it, the silliest example being right in the same local place (but possibly still useful for payphone calls if you haven't a dime). That seemed to create a legal lacuna that nobody did anything about or worried about. Do any readers have comments on this blurry legal state, and on what regional companies might possibly do to charge, and account for, intra-lata credit calls? Thanks, Doug e Intra-lata credit calls