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From: Chris Johnston <chris@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
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Subject: Re: Direct-Dial International Directory Assistance
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Date: 26 Dec 89 20:22:34 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 594, message 6 of 7


    I had occasion to call directory assistance in Puerto Rico from
Chicago.  Dialing 1-809-555-1212 got me an AT&T operator who answered
with "What Island?"  I was then transferred to the Puerto Rican
operator who answered in Spanish then English.  After looking up my
number the operator transferred me to a computer which read the number
to me (in English) with a Spanish accent!

    (The 809 area code covers a large number of Caribbean islands.)

cj