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From: luria@ucbvax.ARPA (Marc Luria)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: International Long Distance
Message-ID: <4526@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 13:53:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  1 13:53:49 1985
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References: <4450@ucbvax.ARPA> <4458@ucbvax.ARPA> <286@ptsfc.UUCP>
Reply-To: luria@ucbvax.UUCP (Marc Luria)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Summary: 

In article <286@ptsfc.UUCP> rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) writes:
>
>  As for your other point about non-availability of international direct
>  dial service: it may be your phone number, rather than your exchange,
>  at fault here. I discovered that IDD is only available to numbers with
>  *special feature* capability - i.e. Call-Forwarding, Call-Waiting,
>  3-Way-Calling - and that those numbers, being limited, are generally
>  only given to subscribers who buy one or more of those features. If you
>  think IDD would be a useful feature, you might consider it worthwhile
>  to change your number - I found it a big money-saver in the long run.

Just wanted to clear up one point.  Those numbers which do not have the
capability for International Direct Dial, can call the operator as long
as the connection is station to station, and are charged the same amount
as Direct Dial.  The only disadvantage of this is that it takes a few seconds
longer, but sometimes it turns out to be advantageous if the lines are busy,
sometimes the operator has given me information as to the reason why.