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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: 976-xxxx Phone numbers
Message-ID: <1042@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 19:11:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 19 19:11:12 1985
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Organization: StrongPoint Systems, Inc. (guest of Ohio State U.)
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> A 976 number is a type of commercial account.  Wereas an 800 number
> is free, and a 900 costs $.50, a 976 number has it's price set by the
> company that sponsors it.  For instance if you call 976-2828 (at
> least in the San Francisco area) you get a smutty message and are 
> charged something like $2.00.  Other numbers give astrology info
> etc..., with each company setting a different price.

Is there any way to determine what the cost of such a call will be before
you make it?  There doesn't seem to be a way of knowing who leases the 
number, so you can't ask them...


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