Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: gdias@ucdavis.edu (Gihan Dias) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Overseas Calling Card Rates Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 89 20:47:03 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Gihan Dias Organization: E.E.C.S. Dept. - U.C. Davis. Lines: 14 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 329, message 7 of 7 My opinion is that John is right. I have no idea whether calls using "USA Direct" and AT&T cards are billed at the same rate or not, but the fundamental priciple in billing is, as John said, Any carrier can charge *its* customers whatever it wants, and the carrier in the originating country couldn't care less. For instance, if I make a collect call home (to Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka Telecom makes a charge according to their rates, and if I get a collect call from home, AT&T charges me AT&T's rates for this, not S.L. Telcom's rates. Neither of these rates has much of a relation to (though they are likeley to be higher than) the rates the carriers charger each other for the call. Gihan