Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Kee Hinckley Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: My List of World Wide Codes Message-ID: <8652@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 4 Jun 90 15:01:41 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: asi Lines: 30 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 413, Message 3 of 9 >> 977- Nepal 98- Iran >> [Moderator's Note: The above are always prefaced with either 011 (for > ****** >> direct dialing) or 01 (for credit card, collect or third number >> billing). Then a city code, comparable to a USA area code, follows the Last time I tried (a few years ago) Iran didn't accept credit card calls. My paranoid guess is that it's because they can't easily track who's calling; I know they listen in on most calls. I discovered the credit card restriction by accident. I was on vacation in California with my wife (prior to our marriage) when the Navy shot down the Iranian airliner. We were calling to see if her father had been piloting it (ulp, fortunately not). The operator tried a credit card call and it was refused, so we switched to billing my home phone. We then actually managed to get through to Iran (quite a feat on a payphone) only to be interrupted by a rather irate (American) operator, who had attempted to verify my third party call, only to get my roommates answering machine telling her she had reached the Arlington Insane Asylum. That took at little straightening out! -kee Alphalpha Software, Inc. | Voice/Fax: 617/646-7703 | Home: 617/641-3805 148 Scituate St. | Smart fax, dial number. | Arlington, MA 02174 | Dumb fax, dial number, | BBS: 617/641-3722 nazgul@alphalpha.com | wait for ring, press 3. | 300/1200/2400 baud