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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B. Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Calling Card Tones
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Date: 17 Nov 89 20:58:45 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 518, message 7 of 11

>From: Bernard Mckeever <bmk@mvuxi.att.com>

>Some future capabilities

>1. Using a single nationwide number to reach a function.

>What this feature allows you to do is reach the nearest location of
>the group you were trying to contact.  The applications listed
>included government functions, as you would expect, but also retail
>outlets.

This already exists in the world of 800 numbers.  At least in AT&T, a
company can opt to have an 800 number go to the nearest branch office
of the company.  I have been bitten by this; the 800 number for my
insurance company is the same around the country, but when I dial it
from work I reach the Boston area office, while my records are in the
Manchester, NH office; the Boston people always have to tell me the
"real" number to call to reach Manchester.


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