dwtamkin@chinet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin) (09/27/89)
In TELECOM Digest, Volume 9, Issue 409, Tom Hofmann asked: | What I would like to know: Isn't there a country (or LDC in the US) | where phone calls can be paid be regular, internationally accepted | credit cards (Visa, Master Card, American Express, etc.)? Phone calls | would get much easier while travelling abroad. Or is there a reason, | why telephone companies do not accept them? There certainly is such a country: the USA. At O'Hare Airport, for example, there are payphones whose magnetic stripe readers will accept a calling card issued by a long-distance carrier, an Illinois Bell card (the local telco in the part of O'Hare where the passenger terminals are located), or MasterCard, VISA, American Express, and either Carte Blanche or Diner's Club (I can't recall which). If you dial inter-LATA with an Illinois Bell card or a credit card or a T&E card, you have to push a button to select a carrier: there are buttons for AT&T, MCI, US Sprint, and ITT. David Tamkin P.O Box 813 Rosemont, Illinois 60018-0813 | BIX: dattier dwtamkin@chinet.chi.il.us (312)693-0591 (708)518-6769 | GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN Everyone on Chinet has his or her own opinion about this.| CIS: 73720,1570