Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: long distance directory assistance Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 89 13:19:14 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 18 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 263, message 7 of 8 In article , 940se@mather1.af.mil (Pete Brown) writes: > 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?) Perhaps that is true where you live! Here in NJ, if we dial 1-NPA-555-1212 from a coin telephone, we get a recording telling us to please depost 50 cents. -- Dave Levenson Voice: (201) 647 0900 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave