If I had no long distance telephone carrier and I make a long distance call, from what company would I be billed?
I dumped AT&T a while back, too, and now use my cellphone for all my long distance calls. There was an incident a few months back where I had to make a call using my landline. The call went through and it appeared on the following billing statement on a separate sheet from AT&T. But AT&T is the default carrier for the Bell services and Southern Bell is my local carrier. For Verizon, I’m pretty sure Verizon long distance would be the default carrier and that’s who you would get the bill from. You could always try using something like 10-10-220 then the number including area code. You’ll get the bill from them. It’s a call by call service with no subscription, and they charge 99 cents for the first 10 minutes and 15 cents thereafter. There are a few such carriers, but that’s the only one I can think of at the moment. I hope that helps!!
It’s basically called “casual billing”. Oddly enough, when casually billed (I’ve seen some bill as high as $14.75 a minute for a in-state long distance call). I’m guessing you were probably charged between $2-5 a minute. Without getting too complicated, it depends on what “trunk line” your call goes through to determine who is going to casually bill you. By selecting an actual carrier, your long distance goes from point A, your home, point B, your long distance carries trunk line, point 3, your calls destination. Without a selected carrier, your call might land on anyone’s trunk line, in your case it was At&T’s. From your above message it states you put a freeze on your account, I’m assuming that might be a “pic freeze” (see below for related info), but a pic freeze isn’t going to do anything for casual billing. Fact is, if you don’t have a long distance carrier selected, or have long distance but no plan selected with them, you will be casually billed. End of story. The safest and mos
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