Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: amdcad!amdcad.AMD.COM!rpw3@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Using "800" LD access from COCOTS Message-ID: Date: 23 May 89 09:04:27 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Rob Warnock Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA 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 175, message 7 of 7 e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) writes: +--------------- | >>From: black@ll-null.arpa (Jerry Glomph Black) | >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... +--------------- Or pop about $20 for the handy little (about 3.5" x 2" x 1") Radio-Shack portable DTMF tone generator. I keep one in my briefcase for *exactly* this kind of situation. (Well... for controlling my home/office answering machine remotely, but the same problem -- fascist COCOTs.) Rob Warnock Systems Architecture Consultant UUCP: {amdcad,fortune,sun}!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 USPS: 627 26th Ave, San Mateo, CA 94403