Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: ab4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (And Drawn) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Making International Phone Calls From France? Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 89 17:29:20 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Columbia University Lines: 23 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 224, message 6 of 11 In article you write: >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. >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. One addition -- calls via a telecarte are *much* cheaper than using coins, at least for local calls. I am told that they are same as those from a home line -- having aphone installed is a painstaking procedure,and many people use the quite comfortable and roomy booths as miniature offices. The prices given a few messages back are still current, and the current discount-for-calling-at-off-peak-times schedule (quite involved, including a discount during lunch hour!) is printed on the back of the newer cards. /a ab4@cunixc.[cc.]columbia.edu ab4@cunixc.bitnet {backbone}!columbia!cunixc!ab4