What ever happened to 10-10 numbers?

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
How did they work, anyways?

The call was $1 for UP TO 20 minutes (I guess it's down to 15 minutes now), meaning that if you call and get a machine, wrong number, person isn't home, only can talk for 2 min, etc, it still costs $1 for the whole call.

Their business model seems to be based mostly on hedging that enough people will get screwed by short calls or long calls to offset the ones that make cost-effective calls.

Well, yeah- but the whole 10-10 concept I mean. Are these the phone companies marketing these? I thought they were 3rd party- and if they are 3rd party, why are the phone companies letting them get a slice of the pie?

 

[eakers]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
How did they work, anyways?

The call was $1 for UP TO 20 minutes (I guess it's down to 15 minutes now), meaning that if you call and get a machine, wrong number, person isn't home, only can talk for 2 min, etc, it still costs $1 for the whole call.

Their business model seems to be based mostly on hedging that enough people will get screwed by short calls or long calls to offset the ones that make cost-effective calls.

Well, yeah- but the whole 10-10 concept I mean. Are these the phone companies marketing these? I thought they were 3rd party- and if they are 3rd party, why are the phone companies letting them get a slice of the pie?

i was told that similar to phone cards they buy blocks of time from phone companies cheap and then distribute it through their numbers to people.

though, im not sure how correct that is.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Well, yeah- but the whole 10-10 concept I mean. Are these the phone companies marketing these? I thought they were 3rd party- and if they are 3rd party, why are the phone companies letting them get a slice of the pie?

I believe the FCC Telecommunications Act of 1996 (although it could have been an earlier act) mandated that you must be able to "dial-around" a long distance carrier to the carrier of your choice, be it a 10-10 or an 800 number. Many of them are provided by long distance carriers (10-10-220 is MCI, for instance).

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Codewiz
Why do that when you can ditch you entire POTS line for VoIP and call anywhere in the US and Canada for free?

I did the 10-10-555 thing (That's... Uhhh... Primus) until a month ago. Then I went POTS+VoIP. Next month I'm moving to VoIP+CDMA+POTS(E911 only)

 

[eplebnista]

I use 10-10-987.

 

[tranceport]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
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[imthebadguy]

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