Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Charge for Int'l D.A. (was "Why not 00...") Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 10:03:23 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 24 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 502, message 6 of 11 In article John Levine writes: >>I just saw an AT&T ad in USN&WR that claimed that "00" is international >>directory assistance. >In the past, if you got international DA through the operator, they'd >charge you for the call unless you called the number you got >afterwards. The one time I got DA from the 800 number, they asked me >for the number I was calling from but didn't charge me. Anybody know >how they charge now? If AT&T charged at all for international Directory Assistance, it was either very recent or a long time ago. I spent one summer checking a customer database, including lots of overseas numbers. I called D.A. in Italy, Britain, Germany, Africa, Japan, Panama, Brazil -- you name it, and I'm quite sure there was no charge. That was pre-divestiture (and thus pre-charge for any D.A. except local), but I've made calls to int'l D.A. on AT&T since (I called "00" to get int'l D.A. through my Sprint operator, who told me to dial 10288-0!) and was not charged. That was about six months ago. The above is, of course, only my own experience, 1978 (+/-) and 1989. Linc Madison = rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu