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You can rest assured that the phone company 100% securely knows who to bill for the call. They just aren’t telling you.
by tinus_hn 3y ago
You can rest assured that the phone company 100% securely knows who to bill for the call. They just aren’t telling you.
- scoot 3y agoLol, no. "[call|charging] [data|detail] records" (CDRs) are batch transferred over FTP, followed by a pseudo ETL into a billing system. It (mostly) works, but it's an archaic mess.
- rglullis 3y agoTo be fair, T-Mobile and AT&T are on sFTP nowadays.
- lakpan 3y agoIn America’s “receiver pays their part” system I wouldn’t be too sure. In the rest of the world, the caller/texter pays 100% of the charge, but in the US you’re charged per text and minutes received. Once you add a “free call” entity on the other side (like Google Voice) then no one is charged to make the call. Additionally, plenty of people “sell” their real number and there are android apps routing internet call through the victim’s real number. In this case, even if the person is charged, it’s not necessarily the spammer.
- lotsofpulp 3y ago> , but in the US you’re charged per text and minutes received I doubt 99%+ of end users in the US have been charged for non international minutes or non international text in the last decade or even 15 years.
- 29083011397778 3y agoThe bill the end user receives being zero doesn't change how telecom billing is set up. The fact that it's "Free" and costs are hidden from the user in America isn't exactly uncommon.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoIf the phone companies are billing each other, they don’t they have to know who to bill, per tinus_hn’s comment?