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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 09:36:40 PST
- From: awry!tom@hercules.aptix.com (Tom Ace)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: 702-333-8444 (was Strange International "Chat Line" Service)
- Message-ID: <telecom13.39.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 39, Message 10 of 12
- Lines: 40
-
- Yesterday, I had success calling 702 333 8444 when preceded by 10333;
- our Moderator had these comments:
-
- > [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. ...
- > ... 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]
-
- I had placed the call yesterday on a PacBell residential POTS line
- (415-821); there was no PBX to screen the 10333. Today, it doesn't
- work the same way -- I get a recording saying I need to use AT&T to
- reach the number. I made calls to PacBell and Sprint to ask about all
- this, and Sprint told me there had been fiber outages which affected
- service in my area yesterday (not implausible given the amount of rain
- we've had over the past few weeks). Indeed, I had to try twice to get
- through yesterday -- I got an "all circuits are busy" recording the
- first time I placed the call.
-
- The PacBell rep was fascinated to hear about a number that could only
- be reached by AT&T, but she assured me that PacBell would always honor
- my 10333 request. I wonder if that's true in all cases; does anyone
- know whether it's common for an LEC to ignore 10xxx codes when there
- are service outages associated with a long distance carrier (or for
- any other reason)? If PacBell didn't route my call to AT&T yesterday,
- then did Sprint do it?
-
-
- Tom Ace tom@aptix.com
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Perhaps due to the outage, Sprint was automatically
- transferring some of their overflow traffic to AT&T. It happens. PAT]
-
-