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As you yourself point out, their charging you for each incoming call during business hours is unacceptable. Why don't they bill the 42c / minute to whomever is calling YOU, as they do with LD and 900 numbers?
This is why I really like the service that I have. I have a "personal number" that is my voice, fax, pager, and voice mail. If someone calls it, it asks them to wait while it locates me. It then has a list of numbers it calls to try and find me (desk at work, cell phone, home phone after 5pm or weekends). When I answer it tells me who's on the phone, and if I don't want to talk to them I just hit a key and throw them to the voice mail wolves. As for billing the caller, from what I hear at work I think it's because of problems with the way the cellular network does billing that (currently) make caller-pays cellular undoable. But that's a telephony problem and I'm just the resident UNIX weenie. :) --- Fletch __`'/| fletch@ain.bls.com "Lisa, in this house we obey the \ o.O' ______ 404 713-0414(w) Laws of Thermodynamics!" H. Simpson =(___)= -| Ack. | 404 315-7264(h) PGP Print: 8D8736A8FC59B2E6 8E675B341E378E43 U ------