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Re: When You Dial Operator, Can Help Find You?
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| Garry W 2005-05-21, 10:55 pm |
| avoidspam@invalid.com wrote:
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>It could be if it was there to offer - but the VoIP services don't
>have one to sell.
I'm not sure there would be any purpose to having a VoIP operator.
As far as I can remember, the only times I've called the operator in the last
25 years was to ask for information that I was too lazy to figure out from
the phone book: whether a certain number would be a toll call, how to dial a
certain foreign country, or how to do a conference call.
I just checked: my Vonage help page does have all that info, accessible
reasonably easily.
I'm interested to hear that operators can provide "remote" emergency help.
But I wonder whether the regular 911 people will do that too - and perhaps
more efficiently.
You sure there's still a use for an operator? The old traditional use of an
operator was to plug the cord with your call on it into the right socket.
Those days are long gone.
Garry
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| DevilsPGD 2005-05-22, 6:55 am |
| In message < fr80919oie461lmk6sie
ipckle522sfkj3@4ax.com> Garry W
< YahooMail@extremelys
erious.org> wrote:
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>DevilsPGD <spamsucks@crazyhat.net> wrote:
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>Wolfgang was talking about =regular= phone calls being "2 cents a minute or
>less".
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.
If you get a collect call, you're out a fair amount of money, at least a
hundred minutes of direct dialed calls.
--
Q. How many Microsoft technicians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Three. Two to hold the ladder and one to hammer the bulb into a faucet.
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