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From: rwhite@nu3b2.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Intra-lata credit calls
Summary: It's who pays that counts.
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Its like the roaming agreement on a celular telephone.  when you make a
calling card call, the call is billed through the "normal" route.  Company
"A" bills AT&T for the call and AT&T normally reaches you through your
local operating company [which is why the firs ten numbers on your card
are most probably your phone number.]  The sematnics of a billing 
depend on the operating company in question.  I think you will find that
all the call detail listed is AT&T long-lines provided, at least on that
one page, and that the fact that this bill is forwarded through is listed
someware insignificant [like on the back of the summary page or something]

This whole thing is noraml, AT&T always does it that way.


Robert.

Disclaimer:  My mind is so fragmented by random excursions into a
	wilderness of abstractions and incipient ideas that the
	practical purposes of the moment are often submerged in
	my consciousness and I don't know what I'm doing.
		[my employers certainly have no idea]