[net.consumers] Request for alternate international phone service

luigi@hplabsc.UUCP (Luigi Semenzato) (04/04/84)

Last time I called Italy, after I gave the number to the operator
(I don't have direct dialing), she told me: "Thank you for using
AT&T international service".

"Why", I replied, "are there other choices?"

"Yes, there are" she answered somewhat reluctantly. I did not have the
courage to ask her more details. The next morning I called Sprint and MCI,
but to no avail. Does anybody know what the "other choices" could be?

Thanks
	Luigi Semenzato (415) 857-5923

hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) (04/05/84)

<rrr one ringy-dingy rrrr two ringy-dingies . . .>

I suggest ITT as a possible alternate to ATT for international
phone calls.  I don't know how you would specify them in a call
though.

Hutch

ix21@sdccs6.UUCP (04/07/84)

National Telephone allows calls to Canada.  They connect to anywhere
that has a 3 digit area code.

Last Christmas MCI provided free three minute phone calls at a
nearby shopping center.  At that time they said they cover the U.S.,
some cities in Canada and England.  They even gave one person a free
call to England.

David Whiteman, UCSD