Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Peter A Clitherow Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Misinterpreted Numbers? Message-ID: <5312@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 18 Mar 90 02:02:51 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 16 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 182, Message 2 of 12 I recently made a call from a COCOT outside an eatery in Key West (on South Beach, perhaps the southernmost payphone in the cont. US), which had no number listed on it - and had 10288+ dialling disabled. Upon receiving my ATT bill I was suprised to see a call listed from Orlando FL 407-423-xxxx, whereas presumably, the number was 305-423-xxxx. Whose DB was broken? Southern Bell?, ATT?, the company that installed the phone? Presumably this happened in 1988 when 305 split. I guess what I'm asking is what is sent to ATT - a logical phone number, or some physical identifier that has to be matched for billing purposes? If I call that number, will it ring in Orlando or Key West? pc