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Re: (ASCEND) Unmetered ISDN VOICE calls



Lee Jones sez:
> > Lee, did you ever get a resolution to this matter?
> 
> Maybe.  The latest bill received for this line finally
> does not include usage charges.  I'll wait and see if
> the problem stays fixed.  It only took from October 1996
> to July-August 1997 to (hopefully) resolve the issue.

Note that Hell Awful also took a year [May 86-May 87] to fix this
for at least one customer..They too started charging /minute for
Business Voice Bearer calls -- here such are ~9c each.

> We kept getting credits for the incorrect usage billing 
> each month.  I know my account rep _real well_ now. :-)

Yep. Been There, Done that...
I am 100% sure, have talked with Folks, that my case was a
Billing Dept screwup. The ISDN Center Mjr was as exasparated as
the other victims. Her troops suffered all the flaming phone calls,
after all.

> 
> > GTE's response was that they have "smart" equipment that can sense if a
> > voice initiated call is a actually a data call placed as a voice call.  I'm
> > not sure what a good response to this is.

"Please put that in writing, with a cc: to the CPUC.."


I did have solid intelligence on Hell Atlantic, now Hell Titanic,
spending buxs on a DOVBS jammer, but its use would raise SERIOUS
tariff issues....


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