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- From: Bob_Frankston@frankston.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: AOS Payphones @#$%%%$#
- Message-ID: <telecom12.921.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 12:06:00 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 921, Message 4 of 10
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- Unlike the Moderator, I've got some sympathy for the problems that
- COCOTs have. People who rent out their homes or condos have similar
- issues with loaning their phones to others.
-
- Given these issues and the problems with the current phone network,
- are there any protocols, perhaps in ISDN, that can be used to flag a
- line as being a "loaned" phone that accepts no billing. Not only
- would this block 900 numbers but it could also be used to flag telcos
- that there is no recourse to the owner of the phones for credit card
- fraud. Perhaps some carriers would block such calls or, treat them
- like they would calls from their own coin phones, find some other way
- to recover their costs such as going after the called party. It would
- also deal with new services such as 0-700 which sometimes bills back
- and sometimes doesn't.
-