Ken Dykes <kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu> (06/12/90)
Well, I keep hearing about USA Direct and wondered why I hadn't heard
of a similar Canadian service ... Well I just heard of it - not through
my phone company but through my Royal Bank Visa newsletter! (If
Can-Direct has been mentioned in this Digest, I missed it :-)
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Canada Direct, the service that puts overseas calls in direct
contact with Canadian telephone operators, is now available from 20
different countries.
...To call home from Tokyo, you just dial the Canada Direct number in
Japan and you're connected with an operator in Vancouver...
...If you were in Milan, you'd call the Italian number and reach an
operator in Montreal.
...you need are the appropriate numbers for the countries you're
visiting -- and Teleglobe Canada will be happy to send you a wallet
card listing all 20 countries if you call them at 1-800-561-8868.
I presume the 1-800 number is Canada only. I just called them, they
asked me how many cards I would like, and "how did I get their 800
number".
Ken Dykes, Software Development Group, UofWaterloo, Canada [43.47N 80.52W]
kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu [129.97.128.1] watmath!kgdykes
postmaster@watbun.waterloo.edu B8 s+ f+ w t e m rhwt@uunet.uu.net (Henry Troup) (06/14/90)
In article <8877@accuvax.nwu.edu> kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) writes: >Well, I keep hearing about USA Direct and wondered why I hadn't heard >of a similar Canadian service ... Well I just heard of it - not through >my phone company but through my Royal Bank Visa newsletter! (If I, on the other hand, heard of it through an insert in my phone bill last July - just in time of a very short notice trip to the U.K. Bill shuffler malfunction? or premature decision that it was junk? Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions ..uunet!bnrgate!hwt%bwdlh490 or HWT@BNR.CA