On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 17:55 -0500, Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: > > and its only legal if the FCC does not regulate you as a telecom > > company. Sprint, Qwest, AT&T, etc tried to do that and they lost in > > court. "self help blocking" was what they called it. > > How do regulated telecom companies get away with blocking anything else > like International, Toll, and 900/976 numbers? Could a carrier just as > easily play a message saying "this number not included in your > 'unlimited' plan" and then complete the call at per min rates? >
900/976 is by user request. International is not the same as domestic, which is what this was in context to. I do not know if playing a message and billing per minute would be acceptable, the carriers did not do that so it was not raised in the court case. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel pgp key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8AE5C721 _______________________________________________ --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
