[65008] in Cypherpunks
Re: Junk Phone Calls, Metered Usage, and Cellphones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Fletcher)
Mon Sep 9 12:03:52 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Mike Fletcher <fletch@ain.bls.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Sep 1996 10:19:00 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:39:50 -0400
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> As you yourself point out, their charging you for each incoming call during
> business hours is unacceptable. Why don't they bill the 42c / minute to
> whomever is calling YOU, as they do with LD and 900 numbers?
This is why I really like the service that I have. I have a
"personal number" that is my voice, fax, pager, and voice mail. If
someone calls it, it asks them to wait while it locates me. It then has
a list of numbers it calls to try and find me (desk at work, cell phone,
home phone after 5pm or weekends). When I answer it tells me who's on
the phone, and if I don't want to talk to them I just hit a key and throw
them to the voice mail wolves.
As for billing the caller, from what I hear at work I think
it's because of problems with the way the cellular network does billing
that (currently) make caller-pays cellular undoable. But that's a telephony
problem and I'm just the resident UNIX weenie. :)
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