ISP Information:
A mobile, wireless telephone that communicates with a local transmitter using a short-wave analog or digital transmission. Cellular phone coverage is limited to areas where a cellular phone can adequately communicate with a nearby transmission tower.
ISP Glossary:
Cellphone - Robert Bonomi wrote: Such an animal probably *doesn't* exist. =UNLESS= they have _local_ (i.e., _non_ toll-free access numbers in the area(s) you'd be calling _from_) And, since you didn't specify _where_ you would be calling from, nobody can tell if there's anything like that in your area. The reason: For *EVERY* call to a 'toll free' number from a pay-phone, the toll-free number operator must pay the pay-phone operator something in the range of 25-35 cents (I don't have the exact figure off the top of my head), for the 'use' of the pay-phone for that call. Either the card issuer (a) charges a surcharge for those pay-phone originated calls that incur the extra costs, or (b) builds recovery of those costs into the charges for *every* call. Guess which one lets them advertise lower rates? The card issuer surcharge for pay-phone calls =is= more than the pass-thru cost, because they have to pay the pay-phone operator _even_if_ the call doesn't complete to the far end. And for 'wrong numbers', and for calls where the calling-card number is entered wrong, and for calls where the calling card doesn't have enough money on it to place the call, etc. etc. Plus the additional administrative overhead of tracking the pay-phone billings.That's where knowing ways of bypassing ANI come in handy. Used to beyou could get around it by dialing 10-10-ATT, then hitting zero andconvincing the ATT op to dial the 800 number (definitely a socialengineering challenge) for the phone card for you -- the ANI would comeup with an ATT number, not the payphone number.Doesn't work with ATT any more, but may work with other carriers.
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