[83656] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Sat Aug 20 12:43:32 2005
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:42:30 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200508201425.j7KEPRYd004360@host122.r-bonomi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> To use 1+ for "toll alerting", in locales where intra-NPA can be toll, and
> inter-NPA can be local, you have to incur one of those sets of increased
> expenses. And the 'inconveniences' to the customer.
Not really. Billable status of a call is known up front in today's
all-digital NANPA coverage area (to my knowledge, the last mechanical and/or
electromechanical switch disappeared before 2002, and it was somewhere in
rural Quebec). In fact, I ran into a telco recently in a 10D/1+10D dialing
area that -- only if the customer subscribed to the unlimited domestic LD
plan -- allowed dialing any US number without the leading 1 as simply 10D.
Conversely, some jurisdictions are very strict about use of the leading 1 to
indicate toll status thanks to localized court cases establishing that
"hidden" tolls are a Bad Thing.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
