The telephone network has long housed vast information used to enable its services. The advent of Custom calling introduced direct customer access to and control over some of this information. TheIntellinent Network extends this access and control still further. This paper descrihes the evolution of network services customer control, concentrating on the impact that the Intelligent Network is exerting on the customer control telecommunications phenomenon.
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