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I have the same plan in two different states. One bills every forwarded
call, the other does not bill to a local landline so I keep it forwarded to
my home phone when I'm in. Why the difference? Could it be that the local
landline company handles the forwarding for Verizon and doesn't bill them
for local calls?

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Slobby Don
Email: (ROT13) fyboolqba@znvy.eh

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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:41:50 GMT, "Slobby Don" <reply@thru.ng> wrote:

>I have the same plan in two different states. One bills every forwarded
>call, the other does not bill to a local landline so I keep it forwarded to
>my home phone when I'm in. Why the difference? Could it be that the local
>landline company handles the forwarding for Verizon and doesn't bill them
>for local calls?

In which state is the plan which doesn't bill? I started a thread on
June 30 entitled "Forwarded minutes and #646" in which I describe the
same scenario. Mine occurred with off peak minutes, I'll be testing
it for peak minutes today or tomorrow.

BTW, I don't think it has anything to do with the local land line
companies. Why would they bill VZW for what amounts to be a local
call?

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The Ghost of General Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:41:50 GMT, "Slobby Don" <reply@thru.ng> wrote:
>
>> I have the same plan in two different states. One bills every
>> forwarded call, the other does not bill to a local landline so I
>> keep it forwarded to my home phone when I'm in. Why the difference?
>> Could it be that the local landline company handles the forwarding
>> for Verizon and doesn't bill them for local calls?
>
> In which state is the plan which doesn't bill?
CA, AZ bills.

> I started a thread on
> June 30 entitled "Forwarded minutes and #646" in which I describe the
> same scenario. Mine occurred with off peak minutes, I'll be testing
> it for peak minutes today or tomorrow.
I found no differences between types of minutes.

>
> BTW, I don't think it has anything to do with the local land line
> companies.
How else do non-Verizon phones reach the network?

> Why would they bill VZW for what amounts to be a local
> call?
Measured vs. flat rate? I doubt that there is billing involved, but maybe
in some areas VZW can't detect forwarding activity that occurs before the
call hits their network unless there is billing.

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On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:53:06 GMT, "Slobby Don" <reply@thru.ng> wrote:

>> BTW, I don't think it has anything to do with the local land line
>> companies.
>How else do non-Verizon phones reach the network?

Through land line switches, just like any other carrier. BellSouth
and Verizon (landline) share our area, and I can have a BS landline
call my VZW phone which is forwarded to another BS landline, and I
don't get charged minutes.

>> Why would they bill VZW for what amounts to be a local
>> call?
>Measured vs. flat rate? I doubt that there is billing involved, but maybe
>in some areas VZW can't detect forwarding activity that occurs before the
>call hits their network unless there is billing.

That is assuming BS has a measured service available which isn't
capped. I once had a second residential line that was measured
service, and the charges were capped at just above the rate for a
standard line. My bet is that VZW leases a trunk, so the costs are
fixed. I can arrange a test of forwarding it to or calling from a VZ
landline and see if that makes any difference.