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- From: wrf@speed.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Calling Canada From Italy - answers
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 00:52:21 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 12, Message 1 of 13
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- In December I asked how to call Canada from Italy since AT&T and MCI
- didn't do it (with US cards).
-
- Several people said that there is a "Canada Direct" number from Italy,
- 172 1001. It charges, roughly, $6 for 3 minutes, then $1 per minute,
- and say that they take AT&T calling cards. Thanks to:
-
- johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Samuel Ho <ho@teeeee.enet.dec.com>
-
- The Italian PTT prints a wallet card giving direct numbers like this
- for many countries. It's available at some visitor centers and
- international airports.
-
- I mentioned about using MCI to call from Italy to Germany. That's a
- real example, they have large ads for the service. They charge
- $2/minute, which suggests that the call is routed via the USA.
- Calling Germany directly from Italy is only (!!) $1/min. Italy is
- apparently one of the more expensive European countries for
- international calling.
-
- International directory assistance from Italy can be complicated.
- They try to use their own copies of the foreign directories instead of
- connecting you to a foreign operator. When I tried to get a number in
- Zurich, the Italian operator who could talk to me in English could not
- easily read the German phonebook to look up the really obscure number
- I wanted, that of the Swiss Post Office.
-
- On the plus side, the newer pay phones have an LCD display for
- messages, and the messages are available in four languages.
-
- Italy has variable length phone numbers, even within one city, such as
- Genoa. Area codes are also variable.
-
- I'm available for questions about phones in Italy since I just came
- back from three months over there.
-
-
- Wm. Randolph Franklin, wrf@ecse.rpi.edu, (518) 276-6077; Fax: -6261
- ECSE Dept., 6026 JEC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy NY, 12180 USA
-