Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: gabe@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Cards Message-ID:Date: 27 Sep 89 14:37:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Gabe Wiener Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 414, message 7 of 10 In article cgch!wtho@mcsun.eu.net (Tom Hofmann) writes: >What I would like to know: Isn't there a country (or LDC in the US) >where phone calls can be paid be regular, internationally accepted >credit cards (Visa, Master Card, American Express, etc.)? Phone calls >would get much easier while travelling abroad. Or is there a reason, >why telephone companies do not accept them? I often see such phones in airports. You pick up the receiver, dial your number, and then slide your credit card through the slot (Visa, MC, AmEx). You then push a button on the phone indicating the long distance carrier you want, and your call rings through. Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings gabe@ctr.columbia.edu to be seriously considered as a means of gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu communication. The device is inherently of 72355.1226@compuserve.com no value to us."