Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!telecom-request From: K_MULLHOLAND@unhh.unh.edu (KATH MULLHOLAND) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: China Fires Communications Minister Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 15:20:02 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 18 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 199, Message 9 of 13 I am not sure if there is as much shady dealing here as in China regarding Telecom or not, but I do have some dealings with Chinese students. A few of them have told me that ini their country, it is not uncommon for someone related to or friendly with a telephone operator to get that operator to place calls for them and charge it to someone they dislike. It is very difficult to get those charges reversed. One interesting note about Chinese Telecom -- according to a former AT&T operator -- there are three gateways in China. Beijing, Shanghai and one other that I can't recall at this moment. Any call out of China may go out through any one of these gateways, and it is not uncommon for a call originating in Beijing to be billed as coming from Shanghai. Kath Mullholand UNH, Durham NH