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Scott37 · 7th Sep 2018, 7:45 pm

Thanks again, Pellseinydd for the elucidation. Why was this different to the procedure for toll calls? Were they automated to the extent that the operator could dial the distant number even if the caller could not? Or did toll calls have no intermediate exchanges, making it easy to obtain a connection? When you say that calls were limited to three minutes at a time, I remember the pips and having to pay again but I assumed if you paid up you remained connected. Are you saying the operator would terminate your call if someone else was waiting? Was it only London that had toll calls, or all director areas, or all exchanges?

7th Sep 2018, 7:45 pm	#14
Scott37 Tetrode Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Posts: 55	Re: Dialling before STD Thanks again, Pellseinydd for the elucidation. Why was this different to the procedure for toll calls? Were they automated to the extent that the operator could dial the distant number even if the caller could not? Or did toll calls have no intermediate exchanges, making it easy to obtain a connection? When you say that calls were limited to three minutes at a time, I remember the pips and having to pay again but I assumed if you paid up you remained connected. Are you saying the operator would terminate your call if someone else was waiting? Was it only London that had toll calls, or all director areas, or all exchanges?