It remains technically infeasible for AT&T to offer pay-per-call service...
It remains technically infeasible for AT&T to offer pay-per-call service for Internet Protocol Relay Services, the telco told the commission in its annual status report Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bm3ftb). Because the company and other IP relay service providers have no billing relationship…
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with users and “no reasonable prospect of such a relationship in the near future,” pay-per-call service is not feasible, and the commission should further extend the current waiver for such services, AT&T said. It also asked for a continued waiver on the requirement for handling one-line voice carry over or hearing carry over relay services. AT&T also said it could not offer carrier of choice features, operator assisted or long distance calls to IP relay service users, because of the “significant costs” it would take to establish a billing relationship to allow this. AT&T has also been unable to release a communications assistant from an IP relay service call without the call also terminating, the filing said. “AT&T has no current solution.” The company was recently accused by the Department of Justice of improperly handling and billing $16 million worth of IP relay calls made by Nigerian scammers (CD Mar 23 p6).