Originally Posted by
Fareastdriver
In 1964 when the country was being connected up to the STD phone system one could ascertain the numbers to dial so that you could get connected to a number in any major city for 4d.
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Yup,"Tandem Dialling", Basically you dialled in to a local exchange IIRC, then out of that into the next and so on until you reached your destination exchange.
There was also another student wheeze , where , so I am told , by using a three figure prefix (175?) you were treated as a BT Service Call and not charged.....