Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu (e118 student) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Overseas 800/900 Access Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 89 22:28:19 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 19 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 150, message 5 of 9 {{{{ quoted text edited -chip }}} >From: Kenneth_R_Jongsma@cup.portal.com >Regarding the question if overseas callers can reach 800 and 900 >service (area code) numbers in the US. The answer is no. Since >800 and 900 service is mapped to an undialable trunk number, >there is no dialable equivilent. ... "Can overseas callers reach 800 numbers?" YES! I have done it myself. From Australia, as a matter of fact, from a payphone in Hobart Airport. I simply dialed 0011-1-800-XXX-XXXX and pumped in coins. However, later I was dialing an 800 number and figured on being on hold a while, so I wanted to charge it to a US calling card number. No go. The operator wouldn't even attempt the call, even though I told her I had dialed the number myself successfully. Moral of the story: sometimes machines are smarter than people. -- Linc Madison = e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu