Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: edell%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Richard Edell) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: "Toll-Free" 900? Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 89 01:02:43 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 16 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 65, message 4 of 5 In article wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI) writes: >Anyone else happen to notice the interesting gaffe or just plain error made on >the Feb 11 airing of "Beyond Tomorrow" on Fox TV? There was a short segment >in which one of the reporters plugged their, as she put it, "toll-free >information line". ^^^^^^^^^ >As I watched that, I wondered: "A toll-free 900 number? How >interesting..." ^^^ It is possible for a 900 information provider to set the retail price of the telephone call to $0.00. The information provider still has to pay the long distance (transport) charges. One reason this might be preferable to 800 service is in the case of AT&T's Dial-It 900 service where no customer equipment is required. -Richard Edell (edell@garnet.berkeley.edu)