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- Date: 15 Nov 92 17:10:05 GMT
- From: tholome@bangalore.esf.de (Eric Tholome)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: 700 Numbers From Overseas
- Message-ID: <telecom12.848.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- In article <telecom12.835.6@eecs.nwu.edu>, our Moderator notes:
-
- > [...] A business in the USA which desires to have reverse-charge
- > calls to it from an international point can quite easily ask AT&T to
- > arrange it for them with the telecom administration in the desired
- > country.
-
- Well, I saw an ad a couple of weeks ago from an American company in a
- French magazine. This ad was indeed customized for France: it was in
- French, and said that one could get more information by calling them
- for free. How, you ask? They were listing an 800 number to be called
- from within the USA, and were also saying that someone calling from
- France should call collect another listed number.
-
- Of course, you could always say that maybe this company didn't want to
- go through the trouble of arranging a real reverse-charge number from
- France.
-
- But this company was ... AT&T!
-
- Well, if AT&T itself doesn't do it, who's going to do it?
-
- Pat, are you really sure this is all that simple?
-
-
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-
- [Moderator's Note: Sure it is. All the (country) Direct lines in the
- USA to foreign countries have 800 (USA style) numbers. Ring the 800
- number here and connect with an operator at British Telecom in order
- to call someplace in the UK on your BT calling card as an example.
- There are a couple of 800-xxx prefixes specifically tariffed to handle
- international traffic (so people in the USA can call 800-style to
- places in other countries). Ditto the other way around. There is an
- 0800 number in the UK which rings CBS News in New York. I think the
- USA Direct service which AT&T operates in other countries in at least
- a few cases relies on 0800 (or whatever) style numbers in the distant
- place to connect with the AT&T operator in this country. Just because
- AT&T doesn't use the service in the particular application you
- mentioned does not mean it is not available. Nor do I know specifically
- what the arrangement for this is with France. PAT]
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