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From: David Tamkin <0004261818@mcimail.com>
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Subject: Re: I Want to Dial the Area Code Even on a Local Call
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Date: 30 May 90 21:21:00 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 398, Message 7 of 13


David Leibold wrote in volume 10, issue 391:

|I found a report of someone in 416 being able to dial 416 + local number
|and getting the local number (no 1+ in front, though).  This was after
|the cutover in March to allow for NXX prefixes.

Hmm.  Was that on a call that normally requires 1-416-NXX-XXXX or on
one that normally requires dialing seven digits?

Central Telephone, through some overlooked bit of code, allows
customers in 312 to dial anywhere in area code 815, inter-LATA or
intra-LATA, with ten digits.  [A large part of area code 815 is in the
Chicago LATA.  If the ten-digit call is to a prefix outside the
Chicago LATA, Centel passes the call to the dialer's primary long-
distance carrier.]  That won't work for calls to area code 708 (which
is nearer than 815) or to other places in 312, though.

Centel customer service personnel have, in the last couple weeks,
become very familiar with the two bugs in their billing software that
have been hitting me since the 312/708 split (well, one of them was
cured March 12).  My mentions of them have been greeted with "oh yes"
as I start to describe the problems instead of "really?" after I've
finished.  The programmers are working on a fix, they tell me.  I'll
believe it when the fix is working on my bills.


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