Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: sdry@vax5.cit.cornell.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Making International Phone Calls From France? Message-ID: Date: 3 Jul 89 19:59:48 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 22 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 222, message 2 of 8 >I am going to be in France next month and will need to make some >international phone calls (more precisely to Spain). Can people tell me >what the most convenient way to do that is? I don't want to have to >use tons of coins or have to go through an operator. I think they >have some computerized phone cards down there; can you buy them in any >postal office, or at airports? In which amount do they come? This is only a partial answer. Yes, they have prepaid cards. and you can buy them in post offices, and probably other places as well. If you can go to a post office during normal opening hours, there may be a better solution: use one of the phone booths within the post office itself. In many places, you can pay to the cashier as you leave. I use this whenever I don't have change for a coin phone, or the streets are too noisy. >Stupid question: can I make any use of an MCI or an ATT phone card >for that purpose? Probably not (and anyway, it wouldn't be to your advantage, as you would almost certainly be incurring a surcharge - on top of the French PTT's regular rates for international calls). Sergio Gelato (gelato@AstroSun.TN.Cornell.Edu)