Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Calling 800 Numbers From Europe Message-ID: <12051@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Sep 90 09:55:57 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: henry@garp.mit.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 47 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 638, Message 3 of 13 From: jdominey@bsga05.attmail.com Henry Mensch responds: >>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. >Incorrect! The USA-Direct tariff specifically allows calls to 800 >numbers in the US *if* you are using an AT&T calling card. Then maybe you AT&T types ought to consider telling this to your operators. One year ago (from Australia's gold coast, just south of Brisbane) and in July (from Hong Kong) I was unable to place calls via the USA Direct operator with billing to my calling card; they wanted a POTS number both times. Date: Fri, 7 Sep 90 07:30:59 PDT From: "John R. Covert 07-Sep-1990 1020" >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. And the Moderator responded to John Covert: >[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] The Moderator is right on the mark here ... John obviously knows more than everyone, including the people who provide the service. (It's not clear how he knows that his experience in this matter is the customary state of affairs, despite evidence to the contrary). Henry Mensch / / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA / / via X.400: S=mensch; OU=informatik; P=tu-muenchen; A=dbp; C=de