[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note:
> say this: (1) there is _no such thing_ -- at least not in the 866
> range -- as a toll free number without a 'regular local number for > this pupose'.
Sure there are, Pat. Plenty of large businesses and especially call centers have T spans direct to their tollfree carriers. If the tollfree carrier has to use the PSTN to send the call the last mile, they have to pay the LEC a piece of it.
If they can get the call from their closest terminal to the to the customer by some other means (point to point T, microwave, tin can and string, whatever) they don't have to give the LEC a cut and can pass the savings along to the customer. If you can save 2 cents a minute you only need 25,000 minutes a month to pay for a $500 t span.
- Ron
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