Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: pwt1%ukc.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: re: Collect Calls to Payphones Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 89 11:09:12 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 215, message 5 of 8 > *** text deleted **** > > If you try to call a pay phone collect from a phone here in > the U.S., the operator knows that you shouldn't be doing that. > > Is is possible to call a pay phone collect from overseas in > this manner? > > -jeff- Payphones here (in the UK) will generate "bleeps" for about 1 minute when making an operator call or receiving an inward call. This informs the operator that the phone is payphone, therefore a payphone and a regular phone may share the same line and be treated accordingly. I presume that foreign international operators will have been told about the bleeping (it could even a CCITT standard .. ???). Peter Thurston