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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
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Posted: Sun Aug  5 17:09:13 1984
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 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