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- From: jjeejj@mixcom.mixcom.com (Rick Bronson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Equal Access Numbers: How to Find Them
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 04:38:48 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 850, Message 1 of 13
-
-
- Here is something you real phone phreaks will love and will leave
- others asking "why in the hell would anyone want to do that?".
-
- First a few definitions: An Equal Access Number is the number you
- dial before you dial the long distance number to "override" your
- normal long distance carrier and select a different carrier. As an
- example, lets say you had MCI for your 1+ long distance carrier and
- you wanted to make a call to 1-212-555-1212 using AT&T, you would dial
- 10288-1-212-555-1212 (10288 is AT&T's Equal Access Number). You would
- then receive a bill from AT&T for this call.
-
- The second thing I need to tell you is (and many of you already know
- this) that when you dial 1-700-555-4141 a recording tells you which
- long distance carrier you've selected. If you preface 1-700-555-4141
- with say AT&T Equal Access Number (10288-1-700-555-4141) then you will
- get AT&T's recording regardless of who your long distance carrier is.
- If you dial 10123-1-700-555-4141 where 10123 is an invalid Equal
- Access Number then you get a recording from your local phone company
- saying the Equal Access Number is invalid.
-
- Ok, so I plopped a analog to digital converter on to a circuit board
- which can be read via the parallel port and feed a signal which
- indicated the level of sound from my modem's speaker into the
- converter. Then wrote a program to auto-dial all Equal Access
- Number's from 10000 thru 10999 followed by 1-700-555-4141 then time
- when some relatively loud sound came on. In this way the program
- could tell if this was an invalid one (short time) or if it was real
- (long time) in which case it logged the number to a file. I later
- dialed these numbers by hand to see what the recording told me. Most
- of the time it would say "Thank you for selecting XYZ as your long
- distance carrier" but once it said "you have dialed a private network"
- and once I got a modem tone so I dialed into it with my computer and
- it said "Easylink UserID:". What follows is the results of my test
- which were made from the 414 area code (Milwaukee).
-
-
- Equal Access
- Number
- (10-???) NAME
-
- 222 MCI[A
- 223 (800-486-8686)
- 231 *Datanet/American Sharecom
- 233 *Cable & Wireless
- 252 *US Sprint Hospitality
- 288 AT&T
- 319 Conquest
- 333 US Sprint
- 375 Easylink (2400 Baud)
- 387 (smn 231) AT&T operator
- 400 *Datanet/American Sharecom
- 401 Telecom*USA
- 432 *LCI (Litel)
- 444 Allnet
- 450 *MidAmerica
- 488 MetroMedia
- 500 *Schneider
- 551 Access Plus (800-541-4155)
- 552 Lake States
- 555 *ITI Encore
- 658 *ITI Encore
- 689 (IAB)
- 696 *DialMED? (800-533-4245)
- 707 *Pay per view order line
- 732 Private network
- 805 MCI
- 810 Logicall
- 835 Telecom*USA
- 880 One Call
- 887 (IAB)
- 888 MCI
- 898 MCI
- 954 *Prime Time
- 999 MetroMedia
- * Business only
-
- I'd really like to try 950-0000 thru 950-9999 but would have to get
- more sophisticated on what I look for on the modem speaker because
- just using the time to getting sound would not work. Any ideas? Also,
- can someone give us the scoop on 950 prefix numbers, I think these are
- toll-free local numbers, but where do they terminate: in one place per
- area-code to the local switch?
-
- Thanks for your indulgence.
-
-
- Rick Bronson Tel 414-362-2419
- Marquette Electronics Inc. FAX 414-362-3010
- 8200 W. Tower Ave. "The views expressed
- Milwaukee, WI 53223 are mine alone"
- Internet: Rick.Bronson@mixcom.com
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Of course what Mr. Bronson is overlooking is that
- he only connected with the carriers (or services) which have
- arrangements *in Milwaukee* to provide long distance calling (or their
- services). Except for pretty much the 'Big Three', the remainder of
- the numbers on his list may or may not do anything in other cities or
- telco territories. We've got a list of these codes in the Telecom
- Archives (anonymous ftp lcs.mit.edu) which covers the entire USA; not
- all listings work in all places. PAT]
-