Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.au!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Horsfall) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Long Distance Indicator (was Re: Wrong Numbers With Nobody Talking) Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 89 06:55:29 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Dave Horsfall Organization: Alcatel STC Australia, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA Lines: 32 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 427, message 3 of 7 In article , sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher) writes: | | In article john@zygot.ati.com | (John Higdon) writes: | >How do you know that they're long distance or local? | | Just a guess, really, but some of the calls sound real clear and some | have those "seashell up to your ear" sounds that I associate with long | distance calls. What? You mean that you don't get a sort of blip-blip-blip on long-distance calls in USA? I somehow assumed that was universal... As an aside, you can always tell when someone's just received a long distance call in Australia (I know - it's a long distance - sorry). RING RING! "Hel..." (hurried) "Hello?" (Carefully and distinctly) Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz dave%stcns3.stc.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.AU!dave [Moderator's Note: I must say, Dave, I have noticed that calls from here to Australia and New Zealand -- the latter particularly -- are extremely clear lately. I'm on the phone once or twice a week to Auckland with a client of our office and the call always goes through immediatly -- in a matter of seconds -- and is perfectly audible; almost like a call to somewhere here in Chicago. I carelessly dialed the call today, leaving off the '9' city code, and got a woman there who thought it rather incredible I was calling from the United States -- a wrong number, yet! South Pacific connections seem vastly improved. PT]