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- From: starr@hriso.att.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Strange Intercept Message
- Message-ID: <telecom13.44.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:24:47 GMT
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 44, Message 6 of 15
-
- A friend of mine accidently dialed an 800 number, and received a
- strange repeating intercept message. I haven't even a clue as to the
- language, but my guess is the message is attempting to say that the
- number you have dialed is not in service. The number is 800-952-5388.
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: This is a good example of how '800-style' calls can
- be international in scope *if* the subscriber wants international
- traffic to the number. In the above example, some company in Germany
- wanted calls from the USA, so they arranged for an 800 number here to
- ring there. What has happened now is the service in Germany was turned
- off for whatever reason and no one has yet told AT&T to quit routing
- calls from that 800 number overseas. I think what it is saying is
- 'this is not a working number'. PAT]
-