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Originally posted by Billy@Mar 11 2003, 01:22 AM
Alex you can call my Billy Hotline, it's only 500 a minute to hear me talk, do you need the number ? Peaches is my best client !
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Yeah, but I had no idea you could get a 4th mortgage on a house!
h34r:
This is one of the oldest urban legends out there. Rates to international numbers are set by your LD carrier. If you have Sprint, then your rates are set by Sprint. If you have MCI, then they're set by MCI, etc. Remember back in Pay per call when 10XXX was so popular? That's why - audiotext was trying to get you to dial around your LD carrier because they were finding carriers that would charger higher rates.
But all rates have to be approved by the FCC and the FCC ain't gonna approve $2400 a minute
The rates ARE higher than a domestic call and back when 0 or 1 in the middle of an area code meant it was a domestic LD call, many people thought that an 809 number was a domestic LD call, pay per call folks would put ads, page people with it, put it in answering machines, faxes, etc. and unsuspecting folks would call it not realizing it was an LD number and the pay per call/audiotext folks, who then had a great relationship with Sprint/MCI/ATT, would charge $2-3 a minute for the call and rake in the $$$. And since the customer was being billed by their LD company through their local phone bill, non-payment of the bill was cause for phone disconnection. Ah, the old days of pay per call
