pwt1%ukc.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (06/26/89)
> *** text deleted **** > > If you try to call a pay phone collect from a phone here in > the U.S., the operator knows that you shouldn't be doing that. > > Is is possible to call a pay phone collect from overseas in > this manner? > > -jeff- Payphones here (in the UK) will generate "bleeps" for about 1 minute when making an operator call or receiving an inward call. This informs the operator that the phone is payphone, therefore a payphone and a regular phone may share the same line and be treated accordingly. I presume that foreign international operators will have been told about the bleeping (it could even a CCITT standard .. ???). Peter Thurston