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MCI Accused of Long-Distance Call Accounting Fraud

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the save-a-buck-or-two dept.

drcobb writes "According to the New York Times, MCI is under investigation again. This time for spoofing SS7 point codes to avoid paying access tariffs. Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation in the United States and Canada into accusations that MCI, the nation's second-largest long-distance carrier, defrauded other telephone companies of at least hundreds of millions of dollars over nearly a decade, people involved in the inquiry said."

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  1. spoofing ss7? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    please.

    What does spoofing ss7 point codes have to do with this?

    Oh, you can't really spoof ss7 point codes, otherwise the return ( cells? ) have no way of getting back to you, so how do you expect to terminate a call? hmmm?

    dumbass.

    get some clue before you write about telephony related things.

    oh, every facilities-based provider gets around getting billed for access, especially when you're talking about intrastate calls. ILEC will bill you roughly 3.5 cents a minute, new CLECs do the same thing, older CLECs charge more but will have to reduce their access costs.

    for interstate calls, you're getting hit for half a cent a minute.

    there is a document on this somewhere on the fcc site describing how the rates have to go down, and what the rates have to be for intra/inter state access charges.

    get some clue.