Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: silber@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Jeffrey Silber) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Cards Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 89 17:44:12 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Jeffrey Silber Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 20 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 420, message 4 of 11 X-GATEWAY-WARNING: original 'Date' value is too old for posting X-Original-Date: 27 Sep 89 13:23:30 GMT In article cgch!wtho@mcsun.eu.net (Tom Hofmann) writes: >What I would like to know: Isn't there a country (or LDC in the US) >where phone calls can be paid be regular, internationally accepted >credit cards (Visa, Master Card, American Express, etc.)? Phone calls >would get much easier while travelling abroad. Or is there a reason, >why telephone companies do not accept them? I was able to place an international call from Heathrow airport using my Visa card ... the phone had a magnetic strip reader which read my card and permitted me to direct dial. The charge appeared on my bill next month from British Telecom. "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." --Sen. Everett Dirksen Jeffrey A. Silber/silber@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu Business Manager/Cornell Center for Theory & Simulation in Science & Engineering