Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: halliday@cc.ubc.ca (laura halliday) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Long Distance Directory Assistance Message-ID: Date: 25 Jul 89 16:01:00 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 19 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 255, message 7 of 10 Long distance directory assistance is free here in B.C. For local information you call 411, as usual, but it will cost you 55 cents (Canadian) if the number is in the local phone book. Unless you're calling from a pay phone or are handicapped or it's an emergency, in which case there is no charge. Long distance directory assistance is free for anywhere in Canada, with no limit. You are allowed 250 calls per month to U.S. directory assistance numbers, after which you pay 50 cents per call. Overseas directory assistance varies with the country. England and France are free, while they charged me a couple of dollars to get a phone number in South Africa. South Africa? That's a story in itself. Rather than send a postcard or some- thing similarly low-tech when it was Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday last year, I decided to try phoning him. The people at Polsmoor (where he was being held at the time) were happy to take a message... ...laura