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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
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Subject: *FREE* Calls From a Hotel! (Legality Unknown)
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Date: 29 Oct 90 17:22:38 GMT
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Recently I took a trip up to Austin, Tx.  I stayed at the Wyndham (an
expensive ritzy hotel :-).  Being one of those really wierd criminal
types, I paid for my room cash up front.  (Trying to rent cars and
hotel rooms with cash only could make a short novel of anecdotes. 
Sigh).

I decided to call my brother, who lives in Austin (a local call). The
hotel operator cut in and told me I needed to leave a deposit to make
phone calls.  This sounded strange to me, since I'd already made some
LD calls with my Sprint card.

Then it hit me: Dial out to Sprint (which is required to be free?)
then make my local call.  I really didn't care if Sprint charged me,
the hotel wanted .25 per call and I really wanted to see if it would
work.

It did.  I got my bill today.  NO CHARGE for the calls I made local to
Austin.  Not even a record of them.

Free calls for all!!


J. Eric Townsend     Internet: jet@uh.edu    Bitnet: jet@UHOU
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