Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Jeff Woolsey Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why Can't I Use 1+10 Dialing For All Calls? Message-ID: <2905@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 15 Jan 90 17:55:01 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: NetCom - The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 249-0290} Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 29, message 11 of 11 The moderator missed the point completely in his footnote to the article about not being able to dial local 1+10D calls in one's home NPA. The rest of the world cares very little about which end of the L platform is in which areacode relative to the issue of why one is universally prevented from dialing the local area code in North America. In the Dialing Instructions article appearing elsewhere in this newsgroup I noted that the dialing of which I speak was listed as permissive, yet I know of nowhere that permits it. This dialing restriction is a problem for widely distributed communications programs and other applications that deal with autodialing modems. (It can be addressed with 800 and 900 numbers which can be dialed the same way almost everywhere, the leading 1 being the only variant.) It is also a problem, crudely handled, for pocket autodialers that travellers carry. I hope there's a really good reason and not just some silly technical problem somewhere, such as old stupid switches immediately handing the number off to a tandem, if indeed there is any reason at all. Jeff Woolsey Microtec Research, Inc +1 408 980-1300 ...!apple!netcom!woolsey ...!amdcad!sun0!woolsey