I have a peculiar problem and was wondering if anyone had had a similar prob
or heard of something like this..

I set up a Ascend MAX 6000 for my old employer on a PRI for internal WAN/RAS
services and didn't
have a problem with it until one of our larger customers turned up with a
$50,000 LD phone bill from
AT&T.

The customer was dialing from outside our MacLeod virtual PoP and my boss
had calculated cost
estimates for them based on LD-RATEx24x7x2[b channels].  The customer
accepted
this estimate.

The bills from AT&T look something like this:

#=continuation of long duration call

#APR    9    914AM    2371.8 [min]    529.19 [cost]
APR    9    914AM    2325.0    524.87
#APR    4    653AM    1994.5    414.61
#APR    4    653AM    1440.0    320.58
#APR    4    653AM    1440.0    293.76
APR    4    653AM    2466.2    556.74
APR    4    159AM    293.5    59.87
APR    3    1105PM    173.5    35.39
APR    3    600PM    304.0    65.91

That's for the first line, the second B looks the same [with the same
costs].  The bills are filled with techically
impossible connections - the only explanation is that they were being billed
for connections that were not properly
terminated by either the client or host.

FCC Tarif 4 states that if the terminating customer's premises disconnects
but the originating customer's premises
does not, chargeable time ends when the connection is released by automatic
timing equipment in the telecommunications
network.

My old employer stated in a certified letter that he had a 3Com technician
go through the config that I had done
on the client's OfficeConnect ISDN modems and found that they were correct.
I'm wondering if a config problem
on the MAX end would have caused this?

I have also heard that he also had a similar problem with another customer
after I left his employ, and I know
that that customer was using MacLeod's virtual PoP to him, so I am ruling
out a LD-related possibility.

For the record, I'm now working for the comany with the $50,000 phone bill,
which puts me in a very awkward position.

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Peter M. Howey, MFA
MIS, Freedom Group, LLC
901 Salzburg Ave.
Bay City, MI  48706
989-895-9733
989-895-9722 FAX

The sooner all of the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find where
they've been hiding their money.

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