Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: ben@sybase.com (ben ullrich) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Local Inter-NPA Calls and Number Conservation Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 00:18:03 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: sybase, inc., emeryville, ca. Lines: 27 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 501, message 6 of 9 As you discovered, 1+ dialing does not necessarily indicate a toll call... it merely indcates a call to a different npa. Some of the time, these calls are toll, and may be handed off to a long distance company for handling. With neighboring area codes, it may also very often result in no charge, such as what will happen to me in 91 when 415 splits off into 510 and 415: my office, a free call, will be 11 digits from my home phone! In light of the reality of what 1+ dialing means, I'd venture to say you erred in your supposition upon which your repeater's programming was based. Tell us this: If another area code were across the street from you (thus making it a free call), how would you suggest the numbering scheme work for this? How does a scheme based on 1+ == toll deal with 800 calls? 1+ aside, there are, at least in my area, several prefixes that are toll (zone) calls within the npa. The only way to catch these, as well as *allow* free 1+ calls is, you guessed it, toll tables. ben ullrich consider my words disclaimed,if you consider them at all sybase, inc., emeryville, ca "When you deal with human beings, a certain +1 (415) 596 - 3500 amount of nonsense is inevitable." - mike trout ben@sybase.com {pyramid,pacbell,sun,lll-tis}!sybase!ben