IN RECENT years, 900 numbers have become a source of electronic entertainment for people with entirely too much time on their hands. You can dial a 900 number and have your fortune told, or obtain ...

Woe is me — and everybody else in The Morning Call’s Lehighton office. We can’t call the Psychic Hotline for advice. We can’t call party lines when we’re bored. We can’t call those adults-only ...

Disputes over bills for 900-number phone calls are as old as the services themselves. Here’s some tips on how to resolve them: First, call the companies listed on your phone bill, but be prepared for ...

Q: I seem to be getting telephone calls from a 900 number. I don't answer these calls, but I'm curious about where they're coming from. Is it a scam? Might it be legitimate? Should I answer the phone, ...

Michael Murphy received a postcard saying he qualified for credit card. All he had to do was dial a 900 number, the advertisement said. The East Baltimore man picked up the phone, not knowing he was ...

Before making a 900-number telephone call, you need to know how much the call will cost, what you will get for your money and what will happen if you have a billing dispute. The Federal Trade ...

Before there was the internet, a constant stream of funny and informative and weird and outright dumb shit flowing endlessly into your eyeballs, there was the 1-900 number, which was pretty much the ...

As America cruised into the 1990s, phones were no longer just for calling friends and family. Startups were harnessing new technology to turn them into tools for checking sports scores and playing ...

Hey everyone. I've been thinking for a while now about creating my own personal 1-900 number. how it would work is this - people would dial it and then it would call my cell phone. if i have the phone ...