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From: roeber@portia.caltech.edu (Roeber, Frederick)
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Subject: Re: Calling US Numbers Collect From Europe
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In article <12052@accuvax.nwu.edu>, roeber@portia.caltech.edu (Roeber,
Frederick) writes...

>I was trying to call Citibank VISA/MC, at the customer service number
>they put on their bills.  Since they have now started printing on my
>bills a 619 number, with instructions to call collect, I rather doubt
>they wanted their 800 number restricted to NA.

In the ongoing saga to contact Citibank from Switzerland: 

One cannot call American numbers collect from Swiss pay telephones.
The operators said it was impossible.  This is particularly bad when
the place one works/stays at has a policy (as does CERN) of forbidding
private calls over institute phones.  Add to this the fact that when
dialling direct, it's hard to put in coins that fast..


Frederick Roeber/roeber@caltech.edu/+41 22 767 53 73/CERN, 1211 Geneva 23