Rolf wrote:

>>My mom is spending a few weeks there with a friend (in or near
>>Johannesburg). While I can call her no problem, I'd like to provide her
>>with a means to call my dad without having that billed to the phone of the
>>people where she is staying -- and preferably with cheap rates.
>>
>>I did some online research, but pretty much all I came up with are calling
>>cards with cheap rates for calling _to_ South Africa. My own calling card
>>has a rate South Africa to Germany of USD .29, which is the cheapest I've
>>seen so far. The access number is listed as 09-882-338-662-3500 -- this
>>looks awfully long; is this a toll free number in South Africa? Or if not,
>>what kind of number is this (is 09 the area code)?

> 09 is the code for international calls from South Africa 

> In other words, based on the number you gave, the calling card is 
> actually a number in "The international networks" according to wikipedia 
> at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes

Thanks! I searched around a bit, and 882-33 seems to be assigned to Oration
Technologies (see
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/forms/files/Applications-E-164.pdf or the full
list of country codes and "country" codes :-)
http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/ob-lists/icc/e164_763.pdf). Not sure though
this information helps anything in this context...

BTW, 881 is "International Mobile", according to the above.

Is there an easy way to find out how much a call to 09-882-338-662-3500
would cost from a residential telephone? It wouldn't make sense to use a
calling card if the rate to the dial-in number is more than the rate to the
destination... :)

Gerhard
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