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From: samho@larry.cs.washington.edu (Sam Ho)
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Subject: Re: Leaving Brief Messages with Free Collect Calls
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Date: 27 Aug 90 15:00:37 GMT
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Hong Kong Telephone apparently does concern itself with such message-
passing tricks.  Right up front in the phone book, it says that if you
make any operator-assisted call, you will be charged a `report charge'
which amounts to about 30 seconds of calling if the call is then
abandoned before completion (e.g. collect call refused,
person-to-person not found, etc.)  I think there's no charge for busy
and no answer, though.

By the way, Hong Kong is one big local calling area.  All domestic
(within Hong Kong, Kowloon, and New Territories) calls are free.  The
phone company claims to have one of the largest number of people in
its free calling area of any in the world.  So report charges only
apply to international calls.


Sam Ho