jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) (10/30/90)
Recently I took a trip up to Austin, Tx. I stayed at the Wyndham (an expensive ritzy hotel :-). Being one of those really wierd criminal types, I paid for my room cash up front. (Trying to rent cars and hotel rooms with cash only could make a short novel of anecdotes. Sigh). I decided to call my brother, who lives in Austin (a local call). The hotel operator cut in and told me I needed to leave a deposit to make phone calls. This sounded strange to me, since I'd already made some LD calls with my Sprint card. Then it hit me: Dial out to Sprint (which is required to be free?) then make my local call. I really didn't care if Sprint charged me, the hotel wanted .25 per call and I really wanted to see if it would work. It did. I got my bill today. NO CHARGE for the calls I made local to Austin. Not even a record of them. Free calls for all!! J. Eric Townsend Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Systems Manager - University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics - (713) 749-2120 EastEnders list: eastender@karazm.math.uh.edu Skate UNIX(r)
tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) (11/05/90)
In article <14127@accuvax.nwu.edu>, jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes: > Then it hit me: Dial out to Sprint (which is required to be free?) > then make my local call. I really didn't care if Sprint charged me, > the hotel wanted .25 per call and I really wanted to see if it would > work. > It did. I got my bill today. NO CHARGE for the calls I made local to > Austin. Not even a record of them. > Free calls for all!! Hmmmm ... I tried this, but got different results. I had some time to kill at a payphone, some local calls to make, a Sprint FON Card, and no quarters. The Sprint bill showed up, and on the longer local calls, the charges were rather hefty. Or did he mean that the HOTEL didn't bill him? Tad Cook Seattle, WA Packet: KT7H @ N7HFZ.WA.USA.NA Phone: 206/527-4089 MCI Mail: 3288544 Telex: 6503288544 MCI UW USENET:...uw-beaver!sumax!amc-gw!ssc!tad or, tad@ssc.UUCP
jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) (11/06/90)
In article <14332@accuvax.nwu.edu> tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) writes: >The Sprint bill showed up, and on the longer local calls, the charges >were rather hefty. Or did he mean that the HOTEL didn't bill him? Well, the hotel didn't bill me, and Sprint hasn't billed me (yet). J. Eric Townsend Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Systems Manager - University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics - (713) 749-2120 EastEnders list: eastender@karazm.math.uh.edu Skate UNIX(r)
carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll) (11/07/90)
In article <14127@accuvax.nwu.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes: >Then it hit me: Dial out to Sprint (which is required to be free?) >then make my local call. I really didn't care if Sprint charged me, >the hotel wanted .25 per call and I really wanted to see if it would >work. >It did. I got my bill today. NO CHARGE for the calls I made local to >Austin. Not even a record of them. I sometimes do this when I'm at a coin phone with no coins. Sprint always charges me, even for local calls. Sometimes these calls turn out to be fairly expensive (up to $1.50 in some cases). Jeff Carroll carroll@atc.boeing.com