[asterisk-biz] Free DIDs

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 11:42 -0700, Nitzan Kon wrote:
>> --- On Sun, 8/16/09, Eric "ManxPower" Wieling <eric at fnords.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Why not just exclude those rate centers from your "unlimited"
>>> plans.  Inform the customer when they sign up for the plan that 
>>> a number of numbers located in rural areas are excluded from the 
>>> "unlimited" plan.
>> We did exactly that.
>>
>> I still think it's a form of abuse. Just because it's LEGAL
>> doesn't mean it's MORAL.
>>
> 
> 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?