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From: covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert  26-Sep-1989 1416)
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Subject: ITI (10488) 0+
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Date: 26 Sep 89 18:20:42 GMT
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Greg Monti writes:

>dialed:  10 488 0 + valid out-of-LATA 10-digit number
>response:  "at the tone, please dial your card number or dial zero for the
>  ITI Operator" (pause) "beep (like an answering machine)"
>dialed:  my valid Bell Atlantic/AT&T card number
>response (after about 10 seconds):  "please wait for card verification"
>  (incredibly long pause, about 30 seconds of dead silence) "thank you for
>  using ITI; if the party you are calling is busy or does not answer, press 1
>  to leave up to a one minute message"  call rings through
>
>... Long distance carriers like ITT (whose 10 XXX is 488, above),
>who do not offer their own operator service route your calls
>to an AOS, which I believe ITI is, for billing.  Some AOS's, like ITI,
>offer value-added services as well, as above.

Hmm.  Fully automatic handling by ITI is new; it used to go to an operator
for entry.  I just made a call this way (and I know it will be more expensive
than via AT&T, but hey, gotta support my habit).  My experiment will be a
little cheaper than Greg's, because I keyed in my AMEX card number (no pin).
ITI charges slightly lower rates for using bank and T&E cards than for using
a telephone calling card.

I terminated the card number with a "#" and the call went through pretty fast.
Since they are supporting various different cards, they have to have a variable
length digit collection system.

/john