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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 11:40:32 EDT
- From: capek@watson.ibm.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Having to Dial 0 + 700 on Calls
- Message-ID: <telecom12.688.11@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 688, Message 11 of 13
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- I tried to use the AT&T Alliance Conferencing service, whose number is
- 700-456-1000. I dialed and got a "cannot be completed as dialed"
- message. I tried 700-555-4141 to confirm that AT&T was still my
- default carrier, and it was. It turned out that for the Alliance
- number, one must dial 0 + 700 ... even though the 0 is not necessary
- for 700-555-4141 call. What's going on here?
-
- Is the leading 0 some sort of acknowledgement by me that this is a
- chargeable call? If I dial the 0, is it presented by my LEC to AT&T
- in a different way than if I don't dial it? Also, where was the
- message generated? By the LEC or by AT&T? If the latter, is there a
- technical reason why they couldn't easily have figured out what I
- wanted and what I was doing wrong, and told me, rather than forcing me
- to call around to find out. (The service worked wondefully, by the
- way, once I got through to it ...)
-
-
- Peter Capek
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Zero-plussing generally indicates that you are
- requesting the assistance of the operator for some task other than a
- straight direct-dialed call. The 'operator' might only be a computer
- you deal with (ie. the automated collect calling and third number
- billing some telcos use now-a-days), but that is beside the point.
- Setting up conference calls is a function of the 'operator', and all
- 'operator assisted' calls carry a surcharge. PAT]
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