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- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- From: mandarin@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Cox)
- Subject: Re: OFTEL number changes
- Cc: mandarin@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Reply-To: mandarin@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:18:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.766312@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk
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- evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
-
- >> Consider the group 021 359 6531, there are infact 5 lines numbered
- >> consecutivly 021 359 6531 ... 021 359 6535.
- >> Only the first number in the group can be dialed, and will get the first
- >> free line, dialing any of the other 4 numbers will get an unobtainable
- >> message.
-
- Ah - a fallacy here. 021 359 6531 used to be one line, with "hunting" to the
- other four numbers (which existed and could be dialled in their own right).
- But when the exchange was modernised, the four lines 021 359 6532-5 became
- 021 359 6531/2 to 021 359 6531/5 respectively and, as a result, can no longer
- be dialled (unless you specially asked BT for that facility - in which case
- the numbers allocated for you to dial NEED NOT be the original numbers).
-
- >> The DTMF (touch tone) maps to a 4 bit code, so you could in fact use
- >> hexadecimal rather than decimal for the numbering anyway.
-
- No you couldn't, as that would conflict with CCITT recommendations !
-
-
- Richard Cox
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