Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: edell%garnet.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Richard Edell) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Goodbye 415-976! It was nice knowing you! Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 89 21:06:19 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Richard Edell Organization: University of California, Berkeley (Student) Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 195, message 2 of 9 In article telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >For a few days now at least, calls from Chicago to 415-976-anything have >been getting intercepted at a switch in Chicago and rejected. I was unable >to find a single routing which would work. The following is an excerpt from a letter from Pacific Bell to 976 Information Providers dated May 4, 1989: "On February 22, 1989, Pacific Bell requested that the local telephone companies and the IECs block the California 976 prefix outside the state. This action was taken to help eliminate unbillable interstate calls from reaching California programs. Apparently Pacific Bell's 976 serving central offices are unable to reject 976 calls carried by IECs (long distance carriers) from outside of California (and still accept calls originated within California.) Therefore Pacific Bell is asking all other phone companies to implement blocking. -Richard Edell (edell@garnet.berkeley.edu) (UCB EECS student and 976 Information Provider)