Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: gast@cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Charging for DA / Obtaining Calling Cards Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 89 07:34:59 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 242, message 2 of 10 > I found both of the people I talked to rather rude, and the > entire idea of charging for 411 when there are no phonebooks available > is (to me) ludicrous. AT&T and hence the entire non-competitive long distance industry has been charging for directory assistance for some years now. Actually, in all fairness, AT&T does allow a few free information calls per month if a long distance call is made to offset the call to information; no other carrier that I know of does. > [Moderator's Note: ... > Sprint also issues [calling ] cards, as does MCI. You have to be on their > network to get their cards however. I don't think AT&T requires this. PT] I can't speak for Sprint, but I know that it is not necessary to have MCI has one's primary carrier to get an MCI credit card. AT&T also does not have this requirement. David Gast gast@cs.ucla.edu {uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!{ucla-cs,cs.ucla.edu}!gast