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From: ballerup@diku.dk (Per Gotterup)
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Subject: Re: Calling 800 Numbers From Europe
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Date: 10 Sep 90 12:11:07 GMT
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roeber@portia.caltech.edu (Roeber, Frederick) writes:

=> In article <11764@accuvax.nwu.edu>, knop@duteca.tudelft.nl (P.
=> Knoppers) writes...

=> >Well, it is true from the Netherlands. It is not possible to reach 800
=> >numbers from this country. Apparently they are blocked in the
=> >international exchanges of PTT telecom, the Dutch phone monopoly
=> >holder.

=> It's not possible from Switzerland, either.  I tried.  The attitude of
=> the Swiss PTT (like most other Swiss organizations..) is, "If we can't
=> make money off of it, you can't do it."

Neither from Denmark. Same policy - no profit, no do!

The Danish telecoms (KTAS, JTAS, FT, TeleSoenderjylland) are not individual
companies but just subsidiaries of the monopoly Telecom Denmark, which is
51% government owned.

Sad story...


| Per Gotterup                       
| Student, DIKU (Inst. of Comp. Sci.)
| University of Copenhagen, Denmark  
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