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From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook)
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Subject: Re: *FREE* Calls From a Hotel! (Legality Unknown)
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Date: 4 Nov 90 23:35:37 GMT
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In article <14127@accuvax.nwu.edu>, jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric
Townsend) writes:


> 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!!

Hmmmm ... I tried this, but got different results.  I had some time to
kill at a payphone, some local calls to make, a Sprint FON Card, and
no quarters.

The Sprint bill showed up, and on the longer local calls, the charges
were rather hefty.

Or did he mean that the HOTEL didn't bill him?


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