[comp.dcom.telecom] Toll free 900 numbers

SCP@cup.portal.com (02/19/89)

In article <telecom-v09i0061m04@vector.UUCP> wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil
(W>
>Anyone else happen to notice the interesting gaffe or just plain error made
on
>the Feb 11 airing of "Beyond Tomorrow" on Fox TV? There was a short segment
>in which one of the reporters plugged their, as she put it, "toll-free
>information line".                                           ^^^^^^^^^
>As I watched that, I wondered: "A toll-free 900 number? How
>interesting..."                             ^^^

I noticed this too.  I also noticed that during the credits at the end of the
program, they displayed the phone number again, this time with the message "95
cents for the first minute, 50 cents for each additional minute" (or something
of the sort).

How interesting indeed.

Doug Granzow
sun!portal!cup.portal.com!scp