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Re: When You Dial Operator, Can Help Find You?
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| Rick Merrill wrote:
> Jer wrote:
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> Good advice, except that the context of this thread was VoIP, and most
> VoIP services do NOT have "operator"! (This is how they lower costs.)
Another revelation! Is it available as an pay-extra feature?
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jer
email reply - I am not a 'ten'
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| Joseph 2005-05-22, 6:55 am |
| On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:25:20 -0700, Garry W
< YahooMail@extremelys
erious.org> wrote:
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>Collect calls are useful from a pay phone. Or, rather, they =used= to be
>useful -- back when pay phones were still plentiful. Back when pay phones
>didn't have built-in "dial anywhere" deals. Back before calling cards were
>available really cheap in every convenience store. Back before you could talk
>to your automobile directly.
Well, the person you call collect pays a hefty premium so you can call
them. Many people even have collect call blocks on their lines in
addition to third party billing block.
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| DevilsPGD 2005-05-22, 6:55 am |
| In message <x77jhsrsc7.fsf@bonnet.wsrcc.com> "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"
< wolfgang+gnus2005052
1T175301@dailyplanet
.dontspam.wsrcc.com> wrote:
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>Rick Merrill <jaynehm@comcast.net> writes:
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>When you are calling for 2cents or less per minute do you really care
>if you get the wrong person or of the call is collect? The whole idea
>of operator-assisted calls only made sense when the calls had
>substantial per minute fees.
Collect calls will not be billed at 2c/minute, they are billed at the
operator rate of the dialing telco (IIRC this is regulated in the states
-- I know for sure that the CRTC regulates the operator or base rate in
Canada)
--
A cheap shot is a terrible thing to waste.
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| Garry W 2005-05-22, 6:55 am |
| Tony P. <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net> wrote:
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>Which is precisely why I block 411 with my Mitel SMART-1 controller. It
>just wasn't worth Vonage's buck a pop to get an incorrect listing.
Just connect it to Infone instead. The regular directory assistance around
here is pitiful/horrible/usually wrong (I'm thinking especially of Verizon.)
But Infone is great.
It's that same buck a pop (well, 89 cents now), but sometimes you're talking
to an operator who's actually =been= to "that diner on Broadway" you can't
quite remember the name of (did that), and always you can ask things like "I
know there's a Target store around here somewhere, but I can't quite find it
-- can you guide me in?" (been there, done that too.)
Sign up at www.infone.com, then put 888-411-1111 on your VoIP speed-dial.
shamelessly shilling,
Garry
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| Garry W 2005-05-22, 6:55 am |
| DevilsPGD <spamsucks@crazyhat.net> wrote:
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>In message <x77jhsrsc7.fsf@bonnet.wsrcc.com> "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht"
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>Collect calls will not be billed at 2c/minute, they are billed at the
>operator rate of the dialing telco
Wolfgang was talking about =regular= phone calls being "2 cents a minute or
less".
Garry
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| Miguel Cruz 2005-05-22, 9:55 am |
| DevilsPGD <spamsucks@crazyhat.net> wrote:
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> Garry W < YahooMail@extremelys
erious.org> wrote:
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> He said "do you really care if you get the wrong person or if the call
> is collect?" -- If you get the wrong person you're out a few cents, no
> big deal.
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> If you get a collect call, you're out a fair amount of money, at least a
> hundred minutes of direct dialed calls.
Right, but since phone calls cost 2 cents a minute, who would bother to make
a collect call (outside of a prison, that is).
Other than my dad, who has an inexplicable habit of calling me collect from
airports, I can't think of the last time I've encoutnered one.
miguel
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| John Bartley K7AAY telcom admin, Portland OR 2005-05-23, 10:55 pm |
| >Tony P. <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net> wrote:
quote:
On Sat, 21 May 2005 23:14:17 -0700, Garry W < YahooMail@extremelys
erious.org>
wrote:[vbcol=darkred
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>Just connect it to Infone instead. The regular directory assistance around
>here is pitiful/horrible/usually wrong (I'm thinking especially of Verizon.)
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>But Infone is great.
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>It's that same buck a pop (well, 89 cents now), but sometimes you're talking
>to an operator who's actually =been= to "that diner on Broadway" you can't
>quite remember the name of (did that), and always you can ask things like "I
>know there's a Target store around here somewhere, but I can't quite find it
>-- can you guide me in?" (been there, done that too.)
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>Sign up at www.infone.com, then put 888-411-1111 on your VoIP speed-dial.
>
>shamelessly shilling,
I use them occasionally, when I can't find a number with SMS messaging to 46645
to have Google look it up. Infone's a quality service, and cheaper than the
idiots who service the ILECs. Recommended.
No connection, except as a customer, BTW.
--
John Bartley K7AAY 503.326.2231...147
telecom syadmin, USBC-Oregon, Portland - Views are mine.
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Dilbert is a documentary.
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