news@accuvax.nwu.edu (USENET News System) (04/14/90)
In TELECOM Digest 10/231, Peter J. Dotzauer <pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu> writes: > > Does anyone have a list of toll-free services for foreign countries, > > such as the 800 service in North America and the 0130 service in > > Germany? South Africa has been testing tollfree systems for a short while now. The first test system (which will continue operating for approximately six months) is the 0100 system. This system allows users to call a number anywhere within SA (which is registered as tollfree) for the cost of a local call. This is only a small system which allows 999 numbers ie 0100-xxx (where xxx is from 001-999) A newer, more advanced system has just been introduced called the 080 system. The country is divided into five regions, of which each is assigned a region number (similar to that of the area dialing code). As an example here is an imaginary tollfree Johannesburg number .. 08011-10001 (where the 080 is the tollfree identifier, 11 the region code and the last five digits the actual number). One thing that is different to other tollfree systems in other countries is that the software running the system has been loaded onto the existing exchanges ... ie; no extra equipment has had to be put in place. Shawn