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From: iiasa!wnp@relay.eu.net (wolf paul)
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Subject: Re: Toll-free 800 Equivalents in Foreign Countries
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Date: 8 Apr 90 01:58:57 GMT
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In Telecom-Digest 10/231, Peter J. Dotzauer <pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
writes:

> Does anyone have a list of toll-free services for foreign countries,
> such as the 800 service in North America and the 0130 service in
> Germany?

I know that in Britain, it is 0800, and here in Austria it is 0660.

You should also note that in most countries where all local calls are
charged according to duration, the equivalent of an 800-service call
is not really toll-free, but rather charged as a local call.


Wolf N. Paul, Int. Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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