Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: 940se@mather1.af.mil (Pete Brown) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: long distance directory assistance Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 89 21:03:45 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 16 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 254, message 6 of 6 >Date: Fri, 12 May 89 08:44:31 EDT >From: Steve Elias >Subject: long distance directory assistance >this is probably old news to many readers, but you can save a dime on >your 1***5551212 calls by prefixing with 10ATT. ATT still charges 50 cents >per directory assistance calls... does anyone know of another carrier >which matches ATTs rate for directory assistance? This, too, is probably old news, but I have *just* discovered that one can call long distance information (1-415-555-1212, for example) *without charge* when the call is made from a Pac Bell coin phone (which also speaks to AT&T as its default carrier... maybe a coincidence?) Pete Brown Mather AFB, CA