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From: bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: *FREE* Calls From a Hotel! (Legality Unknown)
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Date: 7 Nov 90 01:11:58 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.

	I sometimes do this when I'm at a coin phone with no coins.
Sprint always charges me, even for local calls.

	Sometimes these calls turn out to be fairly expensive (up to
$1.50 in some cases).


Jeff Carroll
carroll@atc.boeing.com