From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 21 10:17:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29257 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:17:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29252 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:17:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA25462; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:17:08 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981221111410.06cbb650@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:16:32 -0700 To: tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Phone rates In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:15 AM 12/21/98 +0000, tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk wrote: >Capitalism may reign supreme over on your side of the water, but >British Telecom is unfortunately rather too good at sucking in the >profits over here... I understand that there are two others: Mercury and another. Are they undercutting BT or just going along for the ride? I do recall that some pay phones in the UK also rejected the 0800 number for my MCI international calling card. Why? The phone was owned by a company that had an exclusive deal with AT&T. They blocked calls to anyone else's 800 number. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message