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From: nvuxr!deej@bellcore.bellcore.com (David Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Finding Out the "Real" Number Behind a 1-800 Number
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Date: 15 Dec 89 16:44:08 GMT
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In article <2130@accuvax.nwu.edu>, otto@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
 
> Does anyone have an idea how to get the "real", out-of-country-
> callable number for a company which only has published the 1-800 
> number ?

I can recommend the technique suggested by Anna Robrock in an article
on international telecom in the latest issue of IEEE Communications
Magazine.

(Paraphrasing, cause I don't have the article on me.  Note that Ms.
Robrock lives in Italy).

  "I call the Italtel operator and, in my best colloquial Italian, swear
   at these idiotic self-centered Americans who think they're the whole
   world, and see if I can get him or her to get through to a US operator
   and look up the number.  If she/he won't, I hang up and try again in a
   few minutes to see if I get another operator."


David G Lewis					...!bellcore!nvuxr!deej
	(@ Bellcore Navesink Research & Engineering Center)
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