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Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 06:42:54 GMT
From: Claus Tondering <ct@dde.dk>
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Subject: Re: Calling US 800-Numbers From New Zealand
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cbmvax!.UUCP!robert@uunet.uu.net (Robert L. Oliver) writes:

> Contact AT&T (1-800-CALL-ATT) and find out about getting a USA DIRECT
> card.  I bet you could use that to make 800 calls from abroad.  Anyone
> know for sure?

> [Moderator's Nore: With USA Direct, I think you pay for a call to the
> IOC, and it is then dialed out to the desired 800 number.  PAT]

I tried that a couple of years ago, but the USA Direct operator would
not connect me to an 800 number.


Claus Tondering
Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
E-mail: ct@dde.dk