ken@sharkey.cc.umich.edu> (05/30/91)
For what it's worth: Two years ago, I was in Australia and was unable to use USA Direct to reach a domestic US 800 number. However, several months ago, I was in the UK and had no problems with USA Direct. The AT&T operator placed the call with no questions asked. Billing was as the Moderator described. I paid for the international leg, the callee paid for the domestic portion. It caught me off gaurd when the bill arrived, as the international portion showed up as some place in Pennsylvania. Dialing that number reached an AT&T recording explaining the billing was for an internationally placed 800 call - a nice touch! Ken
rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) (05/31/91)
In article <telecom11.412.4@eecs.nwu.edu>, Ken Jongsma <wybbs!ken@sharkey. cc.umich.edu> writes: > For what it's worth: Two years ago, I was in Australia and was unable > to use USA Direct to reach a domestic US 800 number. However, several > months ago, I was in the UK and had no problems with USA Direct. Does USA Direct take Visa? Last time I tried this, they only took AT&T cards, so if you didn't have an account with AT&T you were out of luck.
D.Heale@ee.surrey.ac.uk (06/04/91)
Attempts to dial American 800 numbers from the UK sometimes give one of two recorded messages (otherwise they just give number unobtainable tone). The messages are: "The number you have dialled is unobtainable, please check the number and try again," and "Your international call could not be completed as dialled, please check the number and try again 2EN". Both of these imply that the user has missdialled rather than international calls to the number being blocked. Presumably there is a table of valid area codes at one of the international exchanges and any code not listed returns these messages, whether it is non-existant or blocked. David Heale