Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Best and Worst (was: Labor Day, 1990) Message-ID: <12062@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Sep 90 20:53:29 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows 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 639, Message 1 of 10 Dave Levenson writes: > In article <11894@accuvax.nwu.edu>, rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) > writes: > > Here is an exercise for you Americans. Imagine yourself standing on a > > street corner downtown in your city with nothing but lots of cash and > > a Visa card. You do not have a "home phone" in this country. You > > don't want to make the callee pay for the call. How would you make a > > long distance phone call? > I would look for a multi-carrier public phone, and insert that VISA > card, and dial away... Which reminds me of why many Americans don't experience such problems in other countries. They carry a card which is accepted for telephone calls around the world. It's called the AT&T Calling Card. It works because AT&T established agreements with countless foreign telecom agencies. It works from hotels, public phones -- U-name-it. So before anyone starts bashing the US for having foreigner-unfriendly phones, how 'bout asking your home telephone provider why they don't issue a card that works in the US? There's more than one side to this story... John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !