Sunday, August 16, 2009

Re: [asterisk-biz] Free DIDs

On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 11:42 -0700, Nitzan Kon wrote:
> --- On Sun, 8/16/09, Eric "ManxPower" Wieling <eric@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.


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