I am curious how often you think that ATT telephone long distance would hand traffic off to MCI telephone long distance. My impression of telephone long distance is that it is largely an end to end service (one of the great differences from the Internet). That as far as long distance goes, there is not a great deal traffic hand off (one exception is times of network trouble where carriers have agreements to hand off traffic to maintain network reliability). Also sprach Patrick W. Gilmore
The telco world is completely different. *EVERY* call has an "origination" and a "termination", and *EVERY* termination is *PAID*.
Example 1: User A goes off hook to call user B who is in another state. User A's local carrier is Bell South. Long distance is Qwest. User's B local carrier is PAcBell. User A pays a bill to Bell South and Qwest. Qwest pays an origination and termination access fee to Bell South and PacBell. User B pays PacBell. So there are flat rate charges on local networks, and metered origination and termination fees on the long distance network. Example 2: User A goes online to "webphone" and using A's webbrowswer calls User B. User's A Net access is not over the Public Telephone Network. "Webphone" is a free service in affiliation with GTE. User B subscribes to PacBell. User A pays a flat rate bill to its Net access provider; user A pays not long distance fee. GTE could act as a CLEC or a long distance company. If it acts as a long distance company IXC then GTE pays a termination access charge but NO origination access charge! User B pays a bill to pacbell. Example 3: User A calls User B 100% over the net and there are no telco charges. Example 4: User A calls User B. Both are on the Sprint Wireless network. Both pay flat rate charges to Sprint for 300 minutes of time. Since the entire call is on network, there are no access charges and reciprocal compensation. If at one end there are two local networks passing traffic, then the local networks must pay a metered reciprocal compensation charge. There are also universal service fees involved. Point: You cannot say "every" call has certain fees. The telephone network gets more diverse by the moment. If there is a trouble with the service in the pacbell network, what exactly do you want bell south to do about it? I guess I an not sure I understand. Finally, dont hestitate to drop essentially an email to the FCC letting them know trouble that you are having with your service. http://www.fcc.gov/eb/tcd/complaints.html Thanks Robert Cannon Internet Telecom Project www.cybertelecom.org ------Original Message------ From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com> To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: July 18, 2000 12:27:11 PM GMT Subject: Re: Telco NOC vs. Internet NOCs (WAS: Wanted: Clueful Individual @ TeleGlobe.net Also sprach Patrick W. Gilmore
The telco world is completely different. *EVERY* call has an "origination" and a "termination", and *EVERY* termination is *PAID*.
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