Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!bionet!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert 07-Sep-1990 1020) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Calling 800 Numbers From Europe Message-ID: <11908@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 7 Sep 90 14:30:59 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 40 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 631, Message 2 of 7 Henry Mensch replies to "P. Knoppers" saying: >>American visitors having an AT&T phone card can probably reach 800 >>numbers through AT&Ts USA-direct service (I may have this name wrong), >>which has a toll-free number in the Netherlands. >Nope ... people who have 800 numbers agree to pay for calls >originating from certain areas (and often the entire US and Canada). >they never agreed to pay for calls coming in from abroad. Henry, it has been reported here before that this _is_ a service that AT&T provides to AT&T customers. The 800 number must be an AT&T 800 number, and the call must be billed to an AT&T or a local telephone company calling card. I placed a call to an 800 number from abroad recently. I called USA direct, gave my calling card number and the 800 number, and AT&T put the call through. I was billed for a call to a number in Pittsburgh, 412 394-6288. You may be amused by the recording (for which you will be charged) if you call this number. I wish the people posting such authoritative statements as yours would check them first. It might also behoove the Moderator to at least post a note stating that he had heard otherwise when false information is placed in the Digest, especially when the correct information has been posted earlier. john [Moderator's Note: It is impossible for me to remember every article which appears every day in the Digest; to go back through old issues looking for the 'correct' information on any given topic would take more time than I am able to spend here. I certainly am in no position to actually call the telcos and LD carriers to verify every statement made here prior to publication. That's why I keep your name on the mailing list, John: so you can read TELECOM Digest each day and give us Truthful and Correct Information when we err. PAT]