[83598] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Thu Aug 18 14:17:11 2005
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Robert Bonomi" <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:53:43 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Thus spake "Robert Bonomi" <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
> *NOT* "other people's fraud". Just when you have 'intra-LATA' toll
> charges for some numbers within a single area-code. If the user is
> on one side of the area-code, and the provider's POP is on the far
> side of it, you can have a what appears to be a 'local' number, that
> does incur non-trivial per-minute charges. Without knowing _where_
> a particular prefix is, you can't tell whether there will be toll charges
> for that call, or not, from any given call origin.
That's why some states (e.g. Texas) require that all toll calls be dialed as
1+ _regardless of area code_, and local calls cannot be dialed as 1+. If
you dial a number wrong, you get a message telling you how to do it properly
(and why).
Sure, this is a little confusing for out-of-towners, but it makes it
impossible to accidentally dial a toll call when you think you're dialing a
local one, which is the reason the PUC decreed it several decades ago.
Apparently NY is just now catching up with rednecks from the 70s.
S
Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything
CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
K5SSS --Isaac Asimov
