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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 11:18:31 PST
- From: awry!tom@hercules.aptix.com (Tom Ace)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: 702-333-8444 (was Strange International "Chat Line" Service)
- Message-ID: <telecom13.36.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 36, Message 7 of 8
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- Our Telecom Moderator writes:
-
- > ... AT&T denies it of course, but 702-333-8444 is a good example.>
- > Try calling it on any carrier *other* than Mother. AT&T graciously
- > accepts the twelve cents per minute and cuts the 'bridge tender' in on
- > the action. PAT]
-
- 10333 1 702 333 8444 completed the call. What were you expecting
- would happen?
-
-
- Tom Ace tom@aptix.com
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: I *know* two things happened. Someone is taking
- your 10333 and either ignoring it and handing it off one plus by
- default to AT&T or changing it to 10288 which is another way of
- getting Mother. I tried 10333 from here and the call definitly would
- not complete. Actually, it *did* complete to that number, which is an
- answering machine telling the caller to redial using 10288. On the
- other hand, AT&T sees those calls arriving in Reno (I think), grabs
- them and sends them over a T-1 direct to the bridge tender without
- handing them to the local telco for completion as does Sprint, MCI,
- etc. Are you in control of your 10xxx assertions when you dial, or is
- some PBX/COCOT/other private system making those decisions whether you
- like it or not ... or indeed even if you know it or not? Try 10333 + 0
- and ask the operator who she is ... betcha she'll say AT&T, because
- your system kicked you over there when you thought otherwise. Please
- let us know the results of your further testing. PAT]
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