Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 13 May 91 23:58:03 GMT From: Jeff Carroll Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Any Calling Cards Without the 75c Per Call Charge? Reply-To: Jeff Carroll Message-ID: Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 364, Message 11 of 11 Lines: 26 In article spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes: > I just got my AT&T Universal bill, and noticed that over 50% of the > cost of my long distance calls is due to the 75 cent per-call > surcharge which they tag onto all calling card calls. (I guess their > ads claiming you pay "only low AT&T rates" are a little bit > dishonest). > Are there calling cards without this extra fee? I don't honestly know whether this is the case any more since I turned over bill-paying to my wife several months ago, but it used to be that Sprint charged no more for "calling card" calls than for calls from home. In fact, it *used* to be that you dialed both kinds of call the same way. And it *used* to be that Sprint was a whole hell of a lot cheaper than AT&T ... Jeff Carroll carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com