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On 11/16/2011 9:12 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> smr<me@shawnritchie.com>  wrote:
>> On 11/15/2011 2:22 AM, Cydrome Leader wrote:
>
>>> The other deregulation era complete joke was "reciprocal compensation"-
>>> where in theory, ameritech would pay you to terminal a phone call if you
>>> did it digitally or though your own switch or something like that. Of
>>> course they never payed unles you sued for so many years that everybody
>>> forogt what the suit was even about.
>
>> Ah, CABS fees. These are still a very hilariously entertaining part of
>> the phone biz. We're all breaking a fuckton of Federal regulations and
>> laws with how we handle 'em, is my guess. Basically, we all agree to not
>> charge each other the recip comp fees. Every once in a while, some
>> small-town asshole company makes a stink about it and we have to band
>> together with the big dogs to let the little company know what's going
>> to happen to their business overall if they really try to push the CABS
>> issue.
>
> Are you talking about a business, or a very small telephone company?
> I thought the business model of the latter was to set extremely high
> rates to terminate calls on its network to rip off any IXC unfortunate
> enough to send a call their way.

CABS only operate between carriers, so the latter. They used to try to 
get away with that sort of crap regularly; they don't so much anymore 
after getting their dicks kicked in by AT&T legal for years.

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smr