Ed_Greenberg@3mail.3com.com (04/05/91)
Bull Puckey! > There is a diner in Los Angeles (the name escapes me) that has a phone > at every table. They are "genuine Bell" phones and each is connected > to CO dial tone. These are, in effect, Charge-a-Calls. You can place > 800, 10XXX, 950, 0+ (goes AT&T), but not local calls (except as 0+). Some have said that permitting 10xxx+0 dialing could result in fraud, since the perpetrator, oops, I mean customer, might request a call to be completed by the operator and billed to the calling number (as in "I'm having trouble dialing, could you please call... ") Why not offer dial-8 access to Charge-A-Call lines? Why not? Because it wouldn't be possible to rape the customer that way. edg