Maybe I misunderstood the question, but I thought the OP was asking how to get through to the company that has an 800-type phone number. There are many ways to make free/cheap calls to the US but if someone needs that particular company quickly and doesn't care whether they use an 800 #, one way to do it is as I posted above.
With my Orange plan, I get charged the same rate for US calls as I do DR calls. Generally speaking, US telecoms and the companies that pay for the 800 #s don't want to pay for incoming international calls and will block them. What I don't understand is why one day it will work, the next it won't and then the next week it will. THAT makes no sense to me at all unless they are running their lines the same way our wifi provider does...sometimes we are on satellite and other times we are connected via DSL/codatel. When we access the net via Sat, all my info is in English and I have no problem downloading (legal) music. When we are on DSL, all my ads are in Spanish (not a problem) but I can't even download legal things because they know it is going to the DR (or the originating ISP is DR). Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure this IS the reason behind Orange's inconsistent access to 800 #s.
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