A call where the recipient pays instead of the caller. In phone systems (especially mobile) in some other countries, this is normal. But in the US, this is highly unusual and requires special steps to accomplish, which is why it has special terminology associated with it.
Seysan wrote: > What is Collect Call? > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Peter Beckman<[email protected]> wrote: >> I've got a few customers who have asked several times for DIDs that can >> accept collect calls. Vitelity says their providers don't support it, >> which I can understand. The purpose is likely to get a local number near a >> prison so the inmate can call locally and not pay $10/minute. Since the >> collect call can be billed at widely varying rates, I'm guessing it is a >> headache to do well. >> >> Does anyone know of any providers offering US DIDs that can accept collect >> calls? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Peter Beckman Internet Guy >> [email protected] http://www.angryox.com/ >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- >> >> AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona >> Register Now: http://www.astricon.net >> >> asterisk-biz mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >> > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (678) 237-1775 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
