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From: dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: Finding Out the "Real" Number Behind a 1-800 Number
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Date: 21 Dec 89 03:22:20 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 585, message 1 of 13


John Stanley wrote in TELECOM Digest, Volume 9, Issue 581:

| And what makes you think everyone with an 800 number WANTS people
| outside NA calling them? If I had a small company struggling for
| survival I certainly wouldn't want a bunch of overseas calls on top of
| all the other expense and headache of overseas sales.

The original question, as the title of the thread ("Finding Out the
`Real' Number behind a 1-800 Number") indicated, was not why companies
wouldn't accept reverse-charged international calls; the answer is
fairly obvious, along the lines of Mr.  Stanley's logic.  The question
was why some companies give out only their toll-free numbers and
refuse to give out another number that an overseas caller can dial at
the caller's own expense.

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