Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Divestiture, Business and the General Public Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 89 23:10:41 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (a subsidiary of DCA), Duluth, GA Lines: 29 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 271, message 3 of 7 X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 202, message 2 of 9 > [ ... problems with long distance dialing in Atlanta ... ] > >Seemingly, every time I dialed 0 I got an operator from a different system. >Certainly, the responses weren't consistent with a single training program. >So, I had to field questions of "what LD service do you want to use?". Dammit, >I just want to call home! I eventually succeeded, but I vowed to fight any >similar efforts to deregulate Canada's telecommunications industry. I think about a year ago, Southern Bell (and I wish someone would confirm this) "standardized" their access to long distance operators. When I would visit my parents in Charlotte, NC, I had to dial two ones (11) to get the operator of the long distance company (at least that's what the SoBell operator told me). When I visited a relative in Ft. Lauderdale, I had to ask the SoBell operator to get the LD operator. Here in Atlanta, I had no problems so I don't know. Now, I can reach the LD operator using two zeros (00) from all places. I do not know if this is standard, but about eight months ago I tried to place a call with my AT&T card from the airport here and had problems, I used the 00 to find they were not AT&T (this was before the publicity about the LD problems problems at Hartsfield). Now I do not know if 00 will work for all areas--even within the Southern Bell area--but it would be nice if it did and became a "standard." -- scott barman {gatech, emory}!dtscp1!scott