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Originally posted by baddog:
okay, you can accept that I know what I am talking about or not, no big deal. I have only been in the industry longer tan most of you have been alive probably, so what the fuck do I know? Oh yeah, that is right, I know that there is never a charge to the calling party with an 800 number.
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Before you need to make such bold statements, I suggest you read up on this at the ftc.gov website. The search feature works well for this.
It is possible to bill the person if they call a 800 number. Collect callback was one of the major popular method of doing it before the FTC stopped it.
The person would call a toll free number, the 800 number would capture his ANI and would say "Please hang up so we can have someone call you back!", the person would hang up and it would call them back and charge them for a collect call.
Most of the people that called didn't even realize it was a collect call, and the collect call cost $3.99 per minute.
Another method of billing for a 800 number is once again grabbing the person's ANI and charging a "misc charge" on their phone bill for the call. There are several 3rd party billers that offer the option of placing misc charges on the phone bill for things like calling cards and such. It can be easily rigged to bill for 800 calls....but you'll get busted....FAST!
Lastly, it is possible to transfer the 800 number call to a 900 number and bill the person for the 900 number even when they called an 800 number!
So baddog, please stop with the "I know what I'm talking about" bullshit because you have no clue what you're talking about in regards to telephony billing.
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