Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 11 Jun 91 02:03:45 GMT From: Robert J Woodhead Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How do You Deal With Central Office Problems? Message-ID: Organization: Foretune Co., Ltd. Tokyo Japan 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 446, Message 3 of 7 Lines: 26 jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) writes: > This recording, by the way, comes from KDD, the international carrier, > after doing an SS7 lookup to the telco (NTT) and discovering the > number is not in service. It is in English and Japanese. IDC, one of the other international carriers, has many nice little features too. Usually you dial 0061 to access IDC. But you can also dial 0062, make your call, and after it is over the IDC billing computer will call you back and tell you the length and cost of your call -- free! There are other 006X prefixes that do things like third party billing. IDC also sends you monthly itemized bills if you want them, and they are bilingual. I've never been disappointed with their service, and, unlike KDD, they seem to be using all digital cables (including the new pacific fiber cables) with no satellite links at all. The connections are totally crystal clear. I call my mom in North Carolina from Tokyo and she thinks I'm at the gas station around the corner. Robert J. Woodhead, Biar Games / AnimEigo, Incs. trebor@foretune.co.jp