Get US dial tones from Canada

[herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)]

The following message was found on the Apples BC BBS:
 
>Msg #19094 in *Macintosh Messages* Created on 01/10/93 at 12:01:05
>To: KIT DOAN [Recvd], From: JOHN MACDONALD
>Subject: (Reply To #19083) Access to US 1-800 Numbers
>MESSAGE HAS REPLIES.
>
>I sometimes forget about it myself when I can't get through on a US only
>1-800 number, but there is a simple solution available at a nonimal
>cost. CARDZ Computers maintains five special phone lines to Point
>Roberts, USA which allow to dial a US only 1-800 number for the price of
>a phone call to Point Roberts. Just dial 1-206-945-2111. This
>immediately gives you a US dial tone in Port Roberts. Then just dial the
>US 1-800 number.
 
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