Dialaround Services - how are they billed?

[joel]

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A friend and fellow VZW customer needs to use a dial-around service to call
family in Cuba. Is it possible to use this with a VZW phone? If so, how
does the call get billed? Are there any VZW charges (aside from plan
minutes) applied?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

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Joel <jrAT@jraskin.com> wrote in message news:<Xns9564E51D6375Fjoelraskinnyc@129.250.170.89>...
> A friend and fellow VZW customer needs to use a dial-around service to call
> family in Cuba. Is it possible to use this with a VZW phone? If so, how
> does the call get billed? Are there any VZW charges (aside from plan
> minutes) applied?
>
> Thanks

Just minutes of use. One possible problem...sometimes the CDMA
technology Verizon uses seems to interact with the other phone
equipment (D/A conversions?) on international calls, so calls don't
sound clear. This may include echoes and a warbley sound.

Don't expect landline quality. YRMV

-
David

 

[Joseph]

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On 15 Sep 2004 02:31:53 GMT, Joel <jrAT@jraskin.com> wrote:

>A friend and fellow VZW customer needs to use a dial-around service to call
>family in Cuba. Is it possible to use this with a VZW phone? If so, how
>does the call get billed? Are there any VZW charges (aside from plan
>minutes) applied?

You cannot use a "dial around" so called "10-10-XXX" CAC with any
cellular service. If you can find a service that either uses regular
POTS numbers (like Gorilla Mobile for instance) or uses a toll-free
800/888/877/866 number to access the service that will work. CACs
will not work with cell phones.

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