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Many of the rural exchanges are anything but innocent. Many of them work with free conference call and phone-porn companies and then hike their connection rate
by haseman 17y ago
Many of the rural exchanges are anything but innocent. Many of them work with free conference call and phone-porn companies and then hike their connection rates to absurd levels. They rely on the law to over-charge telecoms. This isn't to say they're all doing it, but there are a lot of them out minting free money from the telecoms.
- sp332 17y agoArs Technica has a more detailed explanation of that side of the issue. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/att-accused-of-regulatory-capitalism-as-fcc-probes-google-voice.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/att-accused-...
- protomyth 17y agoWhen I was referring to innocent, I was referring to the people being blocked NOT the rural exchanges.
- haseman 17y agoah, I read "rural users" and thought you were referring to the rural exchanges.