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- Subject: Pseudo-Area Code 311
-
- I saw a message on Fidonet's FCC echo from Roger Stark (1:125/28)
- saying:
-
- > The AT&T Phone Home card (whereby college kids can phone home free
- > and ask for money) uses 311 as an access code. It's 311 + A/C + local
- > phone + four-digit passcode.
-
- Is this true? The only time I've seen 311 is in movies and advertisements
- when a fake area code was needed for a phone. I thought Call-Me card
- calls were dialed in the same way as regular calling card calls.
-
- Roger Stark continues:
-
- > The 211 so far seems to be a COPT/COCOT number for coin credits and
- > such, but this is probably simply an internal number which doesn't
- > actually get dialed on a real phone line.
-
- As other TELECOM Digest readers have noted, the 211 code is used for
- different purposes by different telephone companies. Bell Canada
- doesn't seem to use it at all.
-
-
- Nigel Allen - via FidoNet node 1:250/98
- INTERNET: Nigel.Allen@f438.n250.z1.FIDONET.ORG
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Many years ago, the old Bell System always had the
- number 311-555-2368 shown on the dial of phones in advertisements and
- display windows, etc. I think this would have been 1960-ish. I think
- his information on Call-Me cards is wrong. To dial one of those calls,
- one merely dials 0 + AC + number, wait for bong, four digit PIN, #.
- When dialing the number to which a card is assigned -- at least under
- the old ATT/local Bell combine card system -- one needs merely to zero
- plus the number and add the PIN when requested. Appending the pound
- sign (#) to the end speeds the processing since this indicates your
- dialing has been completed. A bit set in a database somewhere said if
- the PIN did not match to that specific phone number, to deny the call.
- Is the new system (separate AT&T cards) different? PAT]
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