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From: am299bv@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla)
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Subject: Re: AT&T Answers My Complaint
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Date: 11 Feb 91 08:20:32 GMT
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In article <74445@bu.edu.bu.edu> DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Douglas
Scott Reuben) writes:

  [about the letter from Mr. Peter Coulter, Manager - AT&T International
about international call blocking from payphones]

	I went through the letter twice and (correct me if I'm wrong),
all he is saying is that if you want to make international calls from
a payphone, they have to be: (a) collect calls, or (b) third-party
billed calls, or, of course (something he didn't mention) (c) coin
calls.

	When I had written a similar letter to Mr. Robert Allen last
year, the local AT&T representative who had called in response had
suggested another option: (d) mention her name and ask the operator
(or the supervisor on duty) to lift the blocking for that particular
call.  As I had mentioned in an earlier message, that did work for me
when I encountered call blocking on a *residential* phone.  So, that
might be another thing to try if you need to make an international
call from a pay phone.


Ravinder Bhumbla   rbhumbla@ucsd.edu   U. of California, San Diego