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From: djc@chinet.UUCP (David J. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: England to United States collect: on payphones!
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Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 22:24:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 30 22:24:06 1987
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A friend of mine told me an interesting story.  Several students from the
university which he attends took a trip to England and got homesick.  So they
called their home campus from an England payphone collect, to a payphone
in the dormitory.  The U.S. party gladly "accepted the charges" from the
British operator, and they talked for two hours.

Suddenly, the connection was broken, and a U.S. operator
got on the line and asked "Who is this?  Is this your personal phone? [Yes]
Who is going to pay for this call? [I am, of course]. Well what is your
name?  [CLICK]".  The college student got cold feet.

Why was this possible in the first place?  How did the local phone company
finally after two hours figure out what was going on?  Who is really going to
pay for that call?
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