gast@cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) (07/17/89)
> I found both of the people I talked to rather rude, and the > entire idea of charging for 411 when there are no phonebooks available > is (to me) ludicrous. AT&T and hence the entire non-competitive long distance industry has been charging for directory assistance for some years now. Actually, in all fairness, AT&T does allow a few free information calls per month if a long distance call is made to offset the call to information; no other carrier that I know of does. > [Moderator's Note: ... > Sprint also issues [calling ] cards, as does MCI. You have to be on their > network to get their cards however. I don't think AT&T requires this. PT] I can't speak for Sprint, but I know that it is not necessary to have MCI has one's primary carrier to get an MCI credit card. AT&T also does not have this requirement. David Gast gast@cs.ucla.edu {uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!{ucla-cs,cs.ucla.edu}!gast