e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) (05/15/89)
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>>From: black@ll-null.arpa (Jerry Glomph Black)
>Subject: Getting LD carriers from payphones
>X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 162, message 4 of 12
>
>3) What has failed in only the rarest of COCOT situations is to use
> Sprint's LD service via the 800-877-8000 access. A few of them shut
> off the keypad's tone generator after the connection is made [...]
Try telling the Sprint operator, "I'm calling from a pay phone and the
owner doesn't want me to use Sprint, so my keypad is turned off. Can I
get the lower rate?" If Sprint has *any* sense at all, they'll happily
give you the lower rate.
--Linc Madison = rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu
or e118-ak@ " " "rpw3@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Rob Warnock) (05/23/89)
e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) writes: +--------------- | >>From: black@ll-null.arpa (Jerry Glomph Black) | >3) What has failed in only the rarest of COCOT situations is to use | > Sprint's LD service via the 800-877-8000 access. A few of them shut | > off the keypad's tone generator after the connection is made [...] | Try telling the Sprint operator, "I'm calling from a pay phone and the | owner doesn't want me to use Sprint, so my keypad is turned off... +--------------- Or pop about $20 for the handy little (about 3.5" x 2" x 1") Radio-Shack portable DTMF tone generator. I keep one in my briefcase for *exactly* this kind of situation. (Well... for controlling my home/office answering machine remotely, but the same problem -- fascist COCOTs.) Rob Warnock Systems Architecture Consultant UUCP: {amdcad,fortune,sun}!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 USPS: 627 26th Ave, San Mateo, CA 94403