Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: 0003829147@mcimail.com (Sander J. Rabinowitz) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Toll Calls on 800 Service Message-ID: <11332@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 25 Aug 90 15:06:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 31 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 594, Message 5 of 7 "John Higdon" writes: >"Excuse, please. Pray tell, what do you do about all of those hundreds >of "pay" prefixes (like 212, 303, 415, etc., etc.) with that >five-year-old in the house? . . .Other than possibly the amount, >what's the difference?" First of all, I would never let the kid play with the phone ANYWAY. But this kind of this does happen ... and anyway, the amount DOES make a big difference. I am aware locally of a 976 service that costs as much for a single one-minute call as it does to dial ALASKA for at least twenty minutes! And where else do you get local numbers that charge you at least as much on a per-minute basis as a direct-dial call to EUROPE at prime time rates? The point is this: If I found that the kid was playing with the phone with strictly long distance numbers, it would take a lot of calls before the damage to the phone bill becomes serious, and hopefully I would be able to notice what was happening. But with a 900 or 976 number, a single call could inflict a lot of damage, and that's something that I'd rather not deal with. Of course, with 900/976 blocking, I don't have to deal with that problem. My original letter was concerned about the possibility of toll calls on 800 service, and I have since been reassured that there's no such problem. Above all else, I didn't see 800 service what 900 service is now. * * * Sander J. Rabinowitz 0003829147@mcimail.com