[comp.dcom.telecom] Minitel access port

jbn@glacier.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle) (02/12/89)

     According to "Paris Passion" magazine, there is now an access port
into the French Minitel system at 540-LINK in NYNEX areas.  This would
include 212, etc.   This number appears inaccessable from California
(415-326).  How can I get there from here?

     Note that 540 in NYNEX areas indicates an information-service provider,
as with 976.

     Direct dialing (AT&T) gets "Your call cannot be completed as dialed".

     Adding a 10222 prefix for MCI gets "MCI does not complete calls to
976 numbers at this time".

     Contacting an AT&T supervisor elicited the information that the number
was "direct dialable only" and could not be dialed from an operator position.
AT&T inward in NYC could not reach it.  Even a NYNEX operator was unable to
reach it.

     This is annoying.  How can I get through?

						John Nagle