DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Douglas Scott Reuben) (11/21/90)
Re: John Higdon's posting and GTE/SF's blocking of International Calls: I called GTE on Friday (since a manager never called me back, which s/he was supposed to do on Monday). I spoke with a front-end customer service rep., which was at about 9 AM, PST. (AND, unbelievably, I got through WITHOUT the interminable GTE "ads on hold"!) The rep who I spoke with told me a supervisor will call back shortly, and that they would discuss the matter with me. About five minutes later, I got a call back from 'Roxanne', who told me that they had reinstated all international calling to my GTE account. She apologized for the problems I was experiencing, and said that I would not have ot use my calling card (which she realized was more expensive) for international calls. So it seems that if you want to make direct-dial international calls with GTE, just call them, tell them that at times you need to make such calls, (you can say you want to call Canada, as was the case with me), and it would seem that GTE is quite reasonable about this and will "un-block" 011 and Canadian ( and Mexican?)-area code calls. Again, this whole thing seems like a pointless exercise to me! Doug dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu dreuben@wesleyan.bitnet