Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!netsys!vector!nobody From: boottrax@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Perry Victor Lea) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Equal Access?? My foot!! Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 89 15:52:44 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 42, message 3 In article anon@nowhere.uucp writes: > >Well, you may have guessed it. When the bill came, all the calls were >billed as International Telecharge Operator Assisted (!!) calls. The price? >About $1.25 a minute for a late evening call from Florida (Marco Island) >to Chicago. I can call Europe for less than that! > I was in the same situation when I tried using my ATT calling card from a phone up in Minneapolis. THe phone was assignbed to the MCI long distance service.. I never made the call and just quietly charged the guys house for the long distance call. ( He's my best friend, so he expects me to pull stunts like that). I couldn't understand why it was so hard to dial a 1800 and enter a calling card number from an MCI phone?