Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: 11TSTARK%GALLUA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Timothy Stark) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Charges for Busy signal when using modem? Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 89 17:41:00 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 27 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 137, message 3 of 6 [Moderator's Note: Due to some errors in transmission, the message which follows was received somewhat garbled. I have reconstructed it. PT] Hello Telecom Users: Last weekend, at RELAY server, Phantom talked with me about charging for busy signals when using modem. Phantom was hit by a high bill because of busy signals. He told me that: If voice-to-voice, they will not charge busy signals; If modem-to-modem, they will charge busy signals. I get very angry with Phantom's telephone company. At my local company they do not charge me for voice or modem for busy signals. What are the FCC regulations about busy signals? Is charging for busy signal unlawful? I will appreciate any responses. Thanks! -- Tim Stark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Timothy Stark | Bitnet: 11tstark@gallua.bitnet VMS Gallaudet University | Internet: 11tstark@gallux.gallaudet.edu UNIX P.O. Box 1453 | GEnie: T.STARK1 Washington, DC 20002 | People/Link: OCS130 U.S.A. | QuantumLink: TimS18 Earth | "Gallaudet University is the only university for Solar System | the deaf in the world." Milky Way | The Known Universe | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-