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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:09:44 EST
- From: FZC@CU.NIH.GOV
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Bell Atlantic Cellular in Ukraine? NOT!
- Reply-To: TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
- Message-ID: <telecom12.917.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 917, Message 6 of 17
- Lines: 40
-
- I just discovered something that is either a bug or a feature
- depending on your opinion.
-
- I was attempting to send a fax to a number in Kiev, Ukraine. To
- attempt to call one of these numbers during the day is almost always
- futile unless you try one of the less-used alternate carriers such as
- Sprint or MCI. So I had a number in the Ukraine that looked like
- this:
-
- 7 044 5xx xxxx
-
- Well, the correct way to dial this would have been:
-
- 9 10333 011 7044 5xx xxxx
-
- But I had dialed it like this:
-
- 9 10333 704 45xxx xxx
-
- The interesting thing was that the phone company never gave me an
- announcement saying that I should not dial a carrier code. Also, I
- note it didn't toss me a "you must first dial a one when calling this
- number" which I would have expected.
-
- At first I thought the phone company was misinterpreting calls made to
- Ukraine. Then I could have said something to the effect of "I knew
- that Bell Atlantic Cellular has a larger calling area than Cellular
- One, but this is ridiculous!"
-
-
- Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
- These opinions are mine alone.
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Nope, telco just decided you were placing a call to
- 704-45xx which happens to be a cellular number and as a result they
- did not have to pass you to Sprint (10333) or an international center
- (011) for the purpose of handling the call. PAT]
-
-