Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!jdd From: jdd@allegra.UUCP (John DeTreville) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Watch your alternate long distance p - (nf) Message-ID: <2670@allegra.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 17:09:13 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2670 Posted: Sun Aug 5 17:09:13 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 01:13:45 EDT References: <174@gargoyle.UUCP>, <70900015@trsvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 19 From: kal@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Watch your alternate long distance p - (nf) Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 14:14:00 EDT MCI tells their customers not to let the phone ring more than 6 times. Then hang-up and try the number again. When you use the line for the length of time that 6 rings consume, AT&T automatically starts billing MCI... This explanation is inaccurate. MCI's charging is not a function of what it pays for the underlying transmission (and the overcharge described above does not exist); it is a function of their current inability to distinguish properly between calls completed and calls not completed. The local operating companies will begin to provide them with the appropriate information over the next few years. Cheers, John ("I Use AT&T 'Cause They Give Me A Discount") DeTreville Bell Labs, Murray Hill