Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: stevem@fai.fai.com (Steven A. Minneman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Diverstiture was not a mistake Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 89 03:55:10 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: stevem@fai.fai.com (Steven A. Minneman ) Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc. Lines: 21 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 133, message 9 of 9 In article Leslie Mikesell writes: >[...] >>I don't think the answer is to allow any one company to monopolize >>long distance service. >The services should be required to connect through the lowest priced LD >service unless otherwise directed (by dialing the access code) by the caller. >Any machine capable of billing a call can easily find the cheapest >rate. Then they could only gouge you for local services. Not at all true -- its a lot easier to bill for a call than to find the cheapest route available. Billing only involves deciding what you want to charge -- its my understanding that many of the AOSs including some of the largest, bill all long distance calls at one rate. Finding the cheapest route would involve having V&H coordinates (to determine the call distance) and also tarriff information from every telephone company in the country. Each call would then have to be costed using all the different carriers.