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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 21:30:15 GMT
- From: helfman@aero.org (Robert S. Helfman)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Seven-Digit Repair Service Numbers
- Message-ID: <telecom12.868.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 868, Message 4 of 8
- Lines: 32
-
- Last week, I was in Washington, D.C. and called home to collect
- messages from my answering machine. The machine seemed to have gone
- off-hook, then suddenly I got a telco message that they were "unable
- to complete your call as dialed". When I called again, my line was
- busy, and stayed that way for at least 20 more minutes -- much longer
- than could be ascribed to the answering machine finishing its cycle.
-
- Normally, I would have assumed that my answering machine had died, but
- in this case, the fact that I got a telco-generated message made me
- think the switchgear was doing something wierd.
-
- I wanted to call repair service for my CO but of course, I surely
- couldn't dial 611 in Washington, D.C. and expect to get repair service
- for a CO across the country. I in fact have a seven-digit number for
- the repair service guys at my CO (I have needed it before when
- reporting my home number from my office) -- but it was in my office in
- L.A.
-
- I called AT&T LD information for L.A. and asked for a seven-digit
- number for repair service (giving them my home prefix). It turned out
- that the number they gave me is for a PacBell center in San Diego, but
- they took the information and must have cleared the line, because 30
- minutes later I found my line worked AND a message had been left on my
- machine by my local CO. In the message they gave me THEIR seven-digit
- number, which needless to say, I've enshrined in my briefcase in case
- this happens again.
-
- Moral: All you children should get your seven-digit repair service
- number from 611 NOW so that you can report your home phone when you're
- away. It would save a real hassle.
-
-