At+t Corp.

Carol P Eversen

Amit Garg

Rajeev B Patil

Courtney Aldington Pinnock

Suzette Drouillard

In a telephone network for use in placing telephone calls to a destination number associated with a called party, the destination number having restricted access for collect telephone calls, a system and method for providing a message to the called party of a collect telephone call from a calling party. A caller placing a collect telephone call is notified of the restricted access of the destination number for collect telephone calls and provided with an option for recording a message for delivery to the called party. If the calling party accepts the option, a message is recorded, such as by routing the collect telephone call to a messaging platform for use in recording the message.

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Long Valley, NJ, United States of America

Carol P Eversen