Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: sp@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve Pershing) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Caller*ID Hits Toronto Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 01:24:56 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Questor - Free Internet/Usenet*Vancouver*BC::+1 604 681 0670 Lines: 24 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 236, Message 5 of 12 djm@dmntor.uucp (David McKellar) writes: > A phone bill insert also says that subscribers can call the operator > and ask to have their phone number kept secret for one call - the > operator then places the call. FOR ONLY C$.75 A CALL !!!!! Anyone > want to start a Canadian 1-900-STOPPER service for 50 cents a shot ? The local telco (GTE subsidiary, BC Telephone Co.), tried to do the same thing here, and was, I believe, denied the operator charge. How they are going to get around it, I don't know. On an unrelated matter, they are dropping TTone charges from $1.30 per residence line and from $2.55 per business line, while at the same time raising the basic rate for all lines by $.90 per month. Steve Pershing, System Administrator The QUESTOR Project: FREE Usenet News/Internet Mail; Sci, Med, AIDS, more : Internet: sp@questor.wimsey.bc.ca : POST: 1027 Davie Street, Box 486 : Phones: Voice/FAX: +1 604 682 6659 : Vancouver, British Columbia : Data/BBS: +1 604 681 0670 : Canada V6E 4L2 :