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From: e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Using "800" LD access from COCOTS
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Date: 15 May 89 08:32:36 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 165, message 9 of 10

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>>From: black@ll-null.arpa (Jerry Glomph Black)
>Subject: Getting LD carriers from payphones
>X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 162, message 4 of 12
>
>3) What has failed in only the rarest of COCOT situations is to use
>   Sprint's LD service via the 800-877-8000 access.  A few of them shut
>   off the keypad's tone generator after the connection is made [...]

Try telling the Sprint operator, "I'm calling from a pay phone and the
owner doesn't want me to use Sprint, so my keypad is turned off.  Can I
get the lower rate?"  If Sprint has *any* sense at all, they'll happily
give you the lower rate.

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