Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 23 May 91 10:36:25 BST From: bmontgom@hvtvm4.vnet.ibm.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: International Calling to 800 Numbers Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 392, Message 5 of 7 Lines: 36 Hello there, A quickie: Whilst I was driving home last night, this talk about giving PIN's over the phone with account numbers, what do you do if you are making a calling card call from a rotary dial or overseas ? Anyway, I was really posting regards 800 numbers from abroad, I have only really found two ways around the problem, neither really all that user friendly: 1) To call a switchboard, company, university, etc and ask them to dial for you - you can get some strange responses from the other end, but it does work occasionally! 2) You can use ATT/MCI Call America type schemes but you need an account with them and I'm not sure what they charge for this service. I think it is the same as calling a regular US number with their respective schemes. Whilst I'm here a quick plug, is there anyone out there looking for an English Electrical & Electronic degree Engineer for employment / sponsorship from Summer '92. I'll be happy for any leads or to supply further details. Cheers, Bryan Montgomery [Moderator's Note: I believe the way this is handled by AT&T in their 'USA Direct' program is you pay for a call to the International Operating Center in Pennsylvania, then an 800 call is dialed out from a line there. PAT]