On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:42:11PM +0000, William Allen Simpson wrote:
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net> Ameritech offers the same service, and I've only been charged for the times I've actually used the feature. If I hang up, I don't get charged. I have to believe BellSouth works the same way, although I could be wrong.
Ameritech doesn't offer it here in Michigan, so I don't know what problems there are.
In Mississippi, it works like this: Busy tone is replaced by a voice message saying something like "Your party is currently busy. If you would like to call again, press 1 or hold the line."
This is how it works in Cleveland. You dial and get a busy signal. Computer voice plays over the busy signal, saying "Let Automatic CallBack redial for you. To use this feature, at a cost of seventy-five cents, press 1."
If you hold the line too long (30 seconds?), or you redial a number with a 1 in it (several of our hunt groups have a 1 in them), you get charged $.75...
Yeah. That's stupid. Ameritech doesn't give you that option, thankfully. And... you get the busy signal *first*, a couple seconds before the voice, which should be enough time for modems to detect a Busy. -- Steve Sobol sjsobol@nacs.net (AKA support@nacs.net and abuse@nacs.net) "Can you look out the window, without your shadow getting in the way" --Sarah McLachlan - "Building a Mystery"