scott@huntsai.boeing.com (Scott Hinckley) (03/03/91)
>Would it be possible to use Call Forwarding, to call long distance, and >not pay for it? Heres the Scenario: I call a friend who is right >between me and an area that is LD for me. His number then forwards >to another number, but into the LD area. Do I get the local call, or >[Moderator's Note: Addressing #2, each phone line only is billed for >what it dials. Therefore you would pay for a call to your friend in ... >somewhere around 12 cents a minute on Reach Out ... how many local >connections linked together with chain-forwarding would it require to >cover the same distance, and how many local calls in the path would >cost five or ten cents each? And who would pay the intermediate This may be a completely mute pont anyway. At least in Atlanta (in 1988) you could not re-call-forward a call-forwarded call. The call-forwarded call to a call-forwarded number would result in a normal ring, rather than a re-forward. This may be to stop such plans. Scott Hinckley Internet:scott@huntsai.boeing.com|UUCP:.!uunet!uw-beaver!bcsaic!huntsai!scott DISCLAIMER: All contained herein are my opinions, they do not|+1 205 461 2073 represent the opinions or feelings of Boeing or its management| BTN:461-2073 [Moderator's Note: We used to have some prefixes like that here. A call forwarded to a number would ring on that number regardless of where the call-forwardee was forwarded to. But now the only time that happens is if there is a loop: A forwards to B and B forwards to A. The incoming call enters the loop at either end and stops after the first hop. Otherwise, chain forwarding works okay here, but the first time it hits a loop, or a number already in the chain, that is it. PAT]