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From: dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: White House "Caller ID"
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Date: 16 Mar 90 00:45:43 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 175, Message 8 of 9


Jody Kravitz wrote in TELECOM Digest, Volume 10, Issue 169:

| Jimmy Carter did a "call in show" one Saturday morning when he was in
| the white house.  The number was a 900 number.  I had never heard of a
| 900 number before.  I was curious then (and am now) if this was done
| for "billing the caller", network congestion control, or caller-id.
| Anyone care to comment ?

It could not have been for billing the caller, as those calls were
publicized as free.  That was the first time I heard of 900 numbers,
and that was the only time I have ever heard of a free call to a 900
number.


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