To dial 9 from a hotel with the BN, you have to put a 9 and a comma in the
phone number of the service you want to call. You don't just manually dial 9.
Peggy
At 06:57 PM 1/2/2004 +0000, you wrote:
New Year greetings to all from one who has rested one BrailleNote for the
past few days.
I do hope that this intriguing subject line will spare the blushes of
Messrs. Kevin, Sean, Lew, Dan, Charles, Chris et Al, whoever he may
be. But, gentle folk, read on, mark, and learn by my mistakes!!!
I spent Christmas and New Year away from home, and took my BrailleNote
with me to the hotel. Right, said the manager, if you dial 9 for an
outside line, you should have no difficulty sending or receiving e-mail!!!
So there I was, in my hotel bedroom, with my beloved wife, Audrey,
BrailleNote and telephone plugged in a double-jacked wall socket. I
picked up the receiver, and dialled 9. I then went through the usual
procedures for checking for new e-mail. The eleven-digit number dialled
away merrily, accompanied by an unusual background hiss. Then a phone
started to ring within the BrailleNote itself, if you follow me. After
about four rings, it stopped, and a garbled, totally unintelligible voice
could be heard issuing from the BrailleNote's interior!!!
I tried again, this time, for no logical reason, dialling 9 with the phone
still on the hook. Again, I was connected, not to my service provider,
but to the hotel switchboard.
Our stay was adventurous in other ways. We were woken early on New
Year's Day by someone telling us that we should ring our daughter, but as
we have no children, we decided that that was a hoax call from a yob.
Last night, or, to be more precise, between three and ten past four this
morning, the hotel's washing machine was switched on at full throttle, in
the laundry room next door to our room.
The hotel tried to charge me fifteen pence (about ten cents) for the
failed e-mail retrieval attempts, of which there were about four in all.
All comments gratefully accepted.
Warm regards,
Jim Taylor.
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