On 5 Jul 2000, at 23:03, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> I also have a FreeWWWeb account. I've had this account for about five months
> now. I do not want to access this account frequently because there is no
> local dialup number for me. My plan is to use FreeWWWeb only as a backup
Here in Australia, there is this free national ISP that has local calls
everywhere. I don't use it myself, but several of my friends do. The
number it dials is an 019 number (used to be analogue mobile
phone, but now this weird new number). It goes to the closest
number, costing the dialler a standard local call. Which is good
because they live ~50km away, where internet is expensive.
I suppose its similar to our 13 number (eg 131888 is the local
Domino's Pizza, where-ever you are in Oz). :-)
Why doesn't other countries have numbers like these?
BTW, the name is Global Freeway, and looks like it would work
with Arachne - it uses standard Windows dialup with no banners.
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