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- Date: 18 Aug 1992 10:21 MST
- From: jms@misvax.mis.arizona.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Who Administers the 800 Numberspace?
- Reply-To: jms@arizona.edu
- Message-ID: <telecom12.643.11@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 643, Message 11 of 13
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- In article <telecom12.634.10@eecs.nwu.edu>, jpk@Ingres.COM writes:
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- > You can get an 800 number from MCI, Sprint, others. Who administers
- > the numberspace?
-
- > [Moderator's Note: Bellcore allocates the space. The prefix, or first
- > three digits following the area code detirmine the carrier.
-
- Not true starting either in November/December or early Spring, 1993.
- As part of the Justice Department involvement in the phone
- company(ies), this will be phased out in favor of a seven-digit
- 800-number database. The argument, which has some merit, is that if
- you have 1-800-HOLIDAY, this is something of value, and you shouldn't
- be kept from changing LD carrier just because AT&T (for example) owns
- the 800-HOL exchange.
-
- Naturally, there is substantial opposition to this from a variety of
- interested parties, including parts of the phone company who don't
- want to do seven-digit database lookup for every 800-number call (can
- you say "increased rates?" I knew you could.) and some of the large
- businesses who don't want to see call set-up times increase during the
- high volume Christmas season.
-
- Nevertheless, if it doesn't happen this winter, it'll happen shortly
- thereafter. Not just a mediocre idea, it's the law.
-
-
- Joel M Snyder, 1103 E Spring Street, Tucson, AZ, 85719
- Phone: 602.882.4094 (voice) .4095 (FAX) .4093 (data)
- BITNET: jms@Arizona Internet: jms@arizona.edu SPAN: 47541::telcom::jms
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