Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: synsys!jeffj@uunet.uu.net (Jeff Jonas) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 800 Scrambled ANI Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 07:31:15 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Reply-To: Jeff Jonas Organization: Jeff's House of Electronic Parts Lines: 21 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 118, Message 4 of 12 >I read somewhere (probably TELECOM Digest) about a 900 service where >you dial the 900 then get a dial tone, dial another number, and get >connected to whomever you want. The final party does not get your >phone number through ANI, and the intermediate company gets some money >charged to you as the 900 call. My phone list shows +1 900 STOPPER as the number. I do not recall the fees, but it was charged per minute as well as an initial charge. Jeffrey Jonas jeffj@synsys.uucp synsys!jeffj@uunet.uu.net [Moderator's Note: $2 per minute on domestic calls; $5 per minute on international calls. Of course the catch they are not telling you is that there is no such thing as caller ID on international calls *yet* nor across LATAs, etc. They'd like you to think their service is really valuable, when in fact for the indefinite future there is very little to be blocked. Try them in a couple years when it will be worth perhaps a little more. PAT]