Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Slater Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Those (900) Numbers Message-ID: <11563@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 31 Aug 90 16:07:18 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Slater Organization: sundc.East.Sun.COM 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 610, Message 4 of 11 In article <11451@accuvax.nwu.edu>, cmylod@oracle.nl (Colum Mylod) writes: |> "Calls to this line are charged at 25p per |> minute cheap rate and 38p per minute all |> other times." |> - British Foreign Office answering machine for concerned relatives |> of those trapped in the Gulf. |> |> (These are the charges for the BT 898 service, not the normal trunk |> charges.) Yes, this didn't go unnoticed over here. This is particularly unreasonable (to say the least) when you conside that the information line for business people concerned about events in the Gulf was at normal toll rates. We don't have an equivalent of the US dial-900-and-we'll-charge-what- we-feel-like service, which is probably just as well in the light of the above. "Calls to this line are charged at five pounds for a friend, ten pounds for a blood-relative or twenty pounds for a spouse ..." John Slater Sun Microsystems UK, Gatwick Office