Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert 26-Jun-1990 2109) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: International Calls Using Credit Card and Equal Access (10 Message-ID: <9325@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 27 Jun 90 01:06:13 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 51 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 458, Message 7 of 7 From: Greg Monti Date: 26 June 1990 Subject: International Calls Using Credit Card and Equal Access Allen Jensen writes: First of all,it's 10XXX, not 10NXX. The "N" means "digits 2 thru 9 only". In fact, any combo, from 000 to 999 is valid after "10", providing a long distance company with that code exists and serves that area. > I would like to find out how International calls are made using the > equal access LD Carriers. Does one just, for example, dial 10222011+ > and if this is so, where does the credit card number go ? No. You would not dial 011. It would be 10222 + 01 + country code + city code + local number + #. Immediately after the # sign, you would receive the "calling card tone" and would dial your USA 14-digit calling card number (the one issued by your LOCAL phone company, not the one issued by MCI, which is LD company 10222; the MCI card number is for 950- and 800-access calls only). Assuming the call and card number were both valid, and that MCI accepts card calls to that country and provided that that country accepts carded MCI calls, you would hear "thank you for using MCI" or somesuch and it would ring through. You would pay MCI card usage charge (probably around $0.75) plus the direct dialed MCI per-minute rate for the call itself. It would appear on the MCI "casual usage" page of your LOCAL phone bill. > How about alternate overseas vendors - 101XX codes ? Anyone have any > examples ??? There are no "different" vendors for overseas calls and for domestic calls. US regulations (the Modified Final Judgment) state that, from any US phone, the whole world is divided into just two areas: intra-LATA and inter-LATA. Overseas calls are obviously in the second category. Therefore, competitive long distance companies carry them. The heirarchy for dialing instructions with and without 10XXX being appended first is (supposedly) exactly the same. Note that the above will not work from a *pay* phone *owned by the local operating company* if you dial 10222 + 011 + etc. "011" from a pay phone of necessity implies that this is a CASH call. The only LD company that handles cash calls from LOC payphones is AT&T. More than likely, if you try this, the "10222" will be ignored and you will be routed to the AT&T recording saying how much money to put in (bring your rolls of quarters!). Greg Monti, Arlington, Virginia; work +1 202 822 2633