Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: decvax!decwrl!apple!zygot!john@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 976 WAKE - up Service in California Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 89 20:51:24 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: ATI Wares Team Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 131, message 3 of 11 In article , telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: > The charge is $2 for each wakeup/reminder call. You do not have to be in > California to hear how it works; just dial 213-976-WAKE. From outside of > California all you will pay is around 25 cents if you call at night, but The California 976 providers hate it when you do that :-) Pacific Bell may be the only BOC to not block 976 calls from outside the state. As a result, providers' call counters click away, but the Pac*Bell remittance is a pittance. Some of the party line people have literally been driven out of business because their machines have been busied out by out of state (and non-remitting) calls. -- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.uucp | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o ! [Moderator's Note: You mean like 415-976-4297, which bills itself as the San Fransisco Hot Conference, where in just a few seconds you will be connected for up to two and a half minutes of lively adult conversation? Men from all over the world call that thing for the cost of the tolls. To heck with any surcharge! That only applies to Californians, and *they* call the one in New York City to avoid the same surcharges! PT]