"There is no such thing as a free meal"

In the UK, the "free" ISPs require you to open an account...........OK you can do this with false information, as they get paid by the Telco, when you connect.

I have never tried to get to one of my accounts via an international call, but I can certainly use UK long distance. This is usually a "national rate" which is a low-end composite, so everyone pays the same no matter where you are in the UK. This would be a bit like a "pay as you go cellphone".......... they could trace the connection, but not who was using it..............other than that it was the fake account that I had set up.

Now, I do get free calls and 1 hour for 1 cent and stuff.............. I don't know what happens there, presumably the Telco still pays something to the ISP?

I do recall connecting to one dial-up account using broadband.......... they closed that hole pretty quickly as they weren't getting paid