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From: kaufman@neon.stanford.edu (Marc T. Kaufman)
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Subject: Re: 976- and 900- Phone Numbers
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Date: 25 Aug 90 16:28:25 GMT
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In article <11307@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Higdon <john@bovine.ati.com>
writes:

>The whole point of 900/976 service is to provide a convenient "casual"
>means of billing for information providers, and to provide universal
>access to those services...

This thread, on the similarity of 900 numbers to 800 numbers, with
billing, raised the following question: Is there a POTS number for the
900 number?  If so, what happens if you call the POTS numbers directly
instead of using the 900 prefix (billing-wise)?


Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)