[VoIP] CAMA and UK billing

[Steph Kerman]

Essentially the same method was used in SXS, Panel and #1XB offices for 
local call metering.   Message registration of local calls was even used 
in #5XB offices in some cases.

Steph

Donald Froula wrote:
> I remember working in a CO near the central telecom
> tower in Vienna in 1983 and seeing a man go in to the
> meter room with a camera. I followed him in. He showed
> me the tape on the floor that marked where he placed
> the camera tripod. Another clerk with a jewlers loupe
> read the meters and generated the billing. I remember
> being amazed at the brute force simplicity of it all!
>
> Don
>
> --- Jonathan Kay <g4vft at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Did CAMA produce fully itemised bills for the
>> customers ?
>>   Just been reading how the CLI was generated in XB5
>> offices on 
>> Wikipedia, it's amazing what steam powered
>> technology could do.
>> Yes, we had subs. meters all right. Trunk dialling
>> and international 
>> just resulted in faster and faster application of
>> units onto the meters.
>>  The coin and fee check relay sets, which controlled
>> pay on answer 
>> payphones, actually had a relay labelled "TBF" If an
>> international call 
>> was metering "Too Bloody Fast" for the set to
>> function within it's 
>> design parameters, this would operate and cut off
>> the call.
>>  In the tiny exchanges, we had to manually read
>> meters each month. The 
>> larger places had a girl who come along from
>> accounts, to photograph the 
>> meters. She had a camera with a four sided "horn" on
>> the front which 
>> covered 100 meters at a time.
>>  
>>  Jon
>>
>>
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