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- From: mandarin@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Cox)
- Subject: Re: 144 (Chargecard) - can you speed it
- Cc: mandarin@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Reply-To: mandarin@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:01:00 +0000
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- mjh@dmu.ac.uk (Mike Howarth) said:
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- >> I have a chargecard and have found that as soon as you hear the
- >> confirmation tone from the service you can go ahead and dial everything
- >> without pauses.
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- You should wait until the tone finishes. BT will interpret the digits you
- dial slightly differently if you send them while the tone is present.
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- > On my home phone I have my cc number in a memory, and other numbers and
- > all I do on getting the tone is hit cc memory type pin hit caller's memory
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- I am puzzled as to why you are using a Chargecard from home ?
- At over double the cost of directly dialled calls ?
-
- Richard D G Cox
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