David_W_Tamkin@cup.portal.com (10/05/88)
MJSchmelzer asks in Digest v8, #151, what the FONcard rates are. For dialed calls via 1-800-877-8000, Sprint charges 55c over the direct dial rate from a telephone whose long distance carrier is US Sprint. If you dial 1-800-877-8000 and time out on sending more tones, or 00 from a phone whose carrier is US Sprint, or 1033300 or 1077700 from any other equal access phone, you will reach a Sprint operator for calls that require operator assistance (collect, third-party, or calls on Sprint lines charged to non-Sprint PINs, or FONcard calls from pulse-only telephones). Patrick Townson and I discovered that whereas 102880 + timeout was enough to reach an AT&T operator from a telephone whose carrier is not AT&T, US Sprint required the third zero. The contents of this submission are applicable, as far as I know, only to calls originating within the fifty United States or the District of Columbia. David_W_Tamkin@cup.portal.com