Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!magic!nvc!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!ucbvax.berkeley.edu!hplabs!pesnta!pesnta!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.telecom Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8510311403.AA16045@pesnta.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 08:58:43 EST Article-I.D.: pesnta.8510311403.AA16045 Posted: Thu Oct 31 08:58:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 03:03:22 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 28 Approved: telecom@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: fa.telecom Subject: Re: "You must first dial a 1 ..." References: <851015054009.924143@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> To: telecom-REQUEST@MIT-XX.ARPA (The Moderator) > In fact, there are many many services possible if we simply assume that > my home pbx is as smart as the telco CO. One problem, though, would be the cost to the consumer. Already we have the situation in which low-income people must subscribe to the new "Lifeline" metered service in order to be able to reasonably meet the costs of the telephone, or subscribe to a "party line". Many of the people who the 1+ convention would help are exactly those who would not be able to afford an expensive telephone set for their home; i.e., those whose understanding of toll calls are limited to "if you have to dial a 1, you have to pay for it, and if it's farther away, you have to pay more." Of course you could argue "such a set would be very low-cost," but consider that we are already paying $.25 per-use for features that exist simply as software in the ESS systems, already. -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: Ofc: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer Home: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jerpc!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642