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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 06:26:43PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: > Note, I'm waiting for this to happen with cell phones. As people > move from land lines to cell phones which can't be tele-solicited > today I can see a cell provider offering a value add service where > the telemarketer can pay an additional fee to cover the costs of > the call. It's 1-800 in reverse, billing the sender. More $$$'s > for cell providers, and if telemarketers find it's the only way to > reach people I'm sure they will pay to do it. Once the receiver > isn't being charged for the calls I doubt and legislative body > would block it. I see some serious issues here. Cell phones are not geographically linked as land-lines are. There is a variable cost in delivering the call to the phone. If I take my at&t cell phone, get them to send me the GSM card so while I'm traveling in europe/africa/wherever I can get calls the last thing I want is to be +/- 6 hours and be woken up. In the same vein it's illegal for them to make unsolicated calls unless they are during the hours of 9am-9pm. If I live in Eastern time and am traveling and in Hawaii and they call me at 9am Eastern and i'm just getting to sleep that would open them up to litigation. (the problem is that even though calls to cell-phones are illegal by telemarketers they must call more than 2 times in a year). I've also had friends that have moved from one coast to the other and kept the same cell phone# as there is no difference in their costs either way and want to keep their friends/family on the other coast as a local call. I'd rather see a solution whereby they are forced to deliver caller-id of their marketing firm or company name. This way I can continue to decide to take the call. Unless i'm expecting your call and know you don't show up on caller-id you are not likely to be answered unless i'm feeling like entertaining myself. It would be not too complicated to add-in sending the name along with the numerical caller-id info. - Jared (this is getting very off-topic, setting reply-to:) -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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