Re: (ASCEND) DOV: 4048 call routing

[Joe Pautler <pautler@grasshopper.cit.buffalo.edu>]

DiGennaro wrote:
]
]I have many customers that do that but there is a caveat here. BA is very
]careful and will ask many, many questions to try to see if you are trying
]to do DOV and then bill you accordingly. I have also seen several 24x7
]customers get really nasty calls from BA saying basically "we know you are
]doing DOV, admit it or die!

and what happens if they admit it??
this is currently a topic of debate here at the univ @ buffalo....
"should we provide a facility for our users to circumvent tarrif charges?"

my point of view is that *we* aren't doing anything... we are giving
the choice to the users.  they can choose to use 64k data channels and
pay $.01/minute/channel in usage charges, or they can choose to
sacrafice some bandwidth (use 56k channels) and not have to
pay the usage charges.  can anyone provide any info (or pointers)
regarding the "legal issues" of this topic?  does BA have any recourse
for dealing with customers who use DOV and keep it nailed up for
hours upon hours?  does anybody have a pointer to the actual
tarrif(s) for new york state?

thanks in advance...

___________________________________________________________________________
Joe Pautler, E.I.T.                             University at Buffalo
CIT/OSS Network Engineering                     224 Computing Center
http://www.oss.buffalo.edu/~pautler             (716) 645-3536

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