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From: lee@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Bob Lee)
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Subject: Re: Inexpensive Way to Increase Calling Area Needed
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Date: 28 Sep 90 05:57:58 GMT
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If you could find a friend in an area whose calling area is local to
you and to the area you want to call, they could get a line installed
there with call forwarding which they could program for you.  They
could even just get call forwarding on their own line and when you
want to make a call, you call them to have them program in the number.
You wait a few seconds, call them back and get forwarded to the number
you want.  They then cancel the forwarding so they get their calls
(the forwarded call in progress isn't affected).  One could get real
clever and program a micro- processor + modem with built in tone
decoder do do it all automatically.