And Cingular/AT&T actually designed and developed the "call 10 people for free" service back when they purchased Pac Bell Wireless. Pac Bell had a service on their mainframe-based billing system where you could call like 3 people for free under the same idea as the TMobile My Faves or Alltel Circle, so when the customers were converted to the Cingular Billing system, Telegence, which is owned by a CSM development company called Amdocs, they developed the service for Telegence, and made it variable, where you could have as many as 20 people in your free calling list.
Now, TMobile and AllTel using billing systems designed by Amdocs, and the free calling list has become part of the core code of the system. So they both used the system, pairing down to 10 and 5 respectively, whereas Cingular didn't want to because they were developing rollover minutes.
Billing development among the cell cariers is a very incestious process.
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T Mobile what a laugh they followed Alltells's 10 numbers free. Alltell beats them hands down in every way.
you're stupid for many reasons.
*laughs because of how poor your spelling/grammar is*
Alltel sucks.
And Cingular/AT&T actually designed and developed the "call 10 people for free" service back when they purchased Pac Bell Wireless. Pac Bell had a service on their mainframe-based billing system where you could call like 3 people for free under the same idea as the TMobile My Faves or Alltel Circle, so when the customers were converted to the Cingular Billing system, Telegence, which is owned by a CSM development company called Amdocs, they developed the service for Telegence, and made it variable, where you could have as many as 20 people in your free calling list.
Now, TMobile and AllTel using billing systems designed by Amdocs, and the free calling list has become part of the core code of the system. So they both used the system, pairing down to 10 and 5 respectively, whereas Cingular didn't want to because they were developing rollover minutes.
Billing development among the cell cariers is a very incestious process.