[asterisk-biz] Free DIDs

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

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.


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