Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: dross@rocky.cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Who Pays For International DA? Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 89 20:52:32 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Dan Ross Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 25 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 373, message 3 of 11 In article henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 366, message 1 of 8 >... >And why does the international DA Operator on our side *insist* on >talking? They could (for all practical purposes) just ask you where >you want to talk to and connect, but *no* ... they feel the need to >verbally "collect" the information so they can then relay it >inaccurately to the foreign DA operator... When I lived in Austin, TX, this past year, I used International DA through Southwestern (Taco :) Bell by dialing the operator and requesting "International DA". I was then connected with someone at AT&T who "collected" the info; however, when the French operator answered, the AT&T operator was having trouble passing the info on, so I (rudely, I suppose) interrupted and talked directly to the operator in French. The AT&T opr seemed to sort of disappear from the conversation -- and the line -- at that point. This summer, I was in College Station, TX, served by (drum roll) GTE. When I requested International DA from the GTE operator, she connected me directly with a French operator, and left me on my own! (I didn't even have to interrupt :-) Dan Ross dross@rocky.cs.wisc.edu