OT - Cellphone billing

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:22:59PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>   
>> Any system that supports Signaling System 7 supports that.  It's part of 
>> the call set up info, though name display requires accessing a 
>> database.  SS7 has been in use for many years and any equipment that 
>> doesn't support it is so old as to be obsolete.
>>     
>
> That's why I figure call display (name display being slightly different)
> doesn't cost them anything.  Any modern telephone equipment simply does
> it by design at no additional cost.
>   

Unless you happen to be on an ancient exchange.  When new gear arrives 
in the big city, it often pushes older stuff out to the boonies, so 
someone in the middle of nowhere, is barely past cranking the phone to 
get the operator!  ;-)
>   
>> On my bill, it's $2.80/month.  As I mentioned in another message, 
>> poverty activists demanded a cheaper pulse line, regardless of any costs 
>> involved.  Also, IIRC, touch tones are not a tariffed item, so it's 
>> easier for Bell to change the price.  It's long past the time the CRTC 
>> should have rolled touch tone dialing into basic service.
>>     
>
> Well the prices they advertise in general have nothing to do with the
> real cost (other than always being lower than the real cost).  For
> example rogers wants:
>
> $29.95 for basic phone + 1 feature (features are of course for the most
> part essentially free to provide)
>
> But then they add in 911 costs (so does bell) which since it is
> mandetory ought to be in the base price.
>   

Since I'm paying that 911 charge on both wired & cell phones, do I get 
to call them twice as often?  ;-)


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