Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!newstop!sun-barr!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B. Levin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telecomm*USA Wants Your Local Phone Calls, Too Message-ID: Date: 22 Nov 89 19:18:40 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 28 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 528, message 9 of 9 >From: Robert Michael Gutierrez >Actually, this CAN work here in the Bay Area. >Remember, 700 is just an entry in the local telco route table >directing the call to the default IXC (L.D. carrier). The L.D. carrier >would then see the incoming ANI, and the switch would just translate . . . >in that the L.D. carriers are screaming that when intra-lata >competition comes around, the LEC's (local telco's) want 10XXX >dialling, but the L.D. carriers want something more simpler. Remember, >700-NXX-XXXX is the only area code that does automatic routing to a >L.D. carrier *right now* (other than standard inter-lata NPA's). I'm not quite sure what this means. 700 goes to an IXC (or IEC or IC or OCC or L.D.carrier) just the same as any other NPA does except 800 and (I think) 900. It's just that the LD company gets to use it for its own special purposes instead of as a destination designator. ATT uses it, among other things, to give callers access to conference calling facilities. All carriers use 700-555-4141 for carrier identification. 700 acts just like any standard NPA in the presence or absence of a 10XXX code; you can allow selection of your default carrier, or you may specify any carrier that supports 700. Nets: levin@bbn.com | or {...}!bbn!levin | POTS: (617)873-3463 |