Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "John R. Covert 07-Jun-1990 2243" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 10XXX Bugs (from Greg Monti) Message-ID: <8781@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 8 Jun 90 02:40:57 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 30 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 420, Message 6 of 13 From: Greg Monti Subject: Re: 10XXX Bugs Bill Fenner writes: > I was playing around at a newly installed Bell o' PA phone the other > day, and got some funny responses: > 10288-1-700-555-4141 gave the expected (ring ring) Thank you for using > AT&T....10333-1-700-555-4141 gave the unexpected (ring ring) Thank you > for using AT&T. > Um ... is this legal? Far as I know, yes. Unlike your home phone (or maybe LIKE your home phone, dunno), BOC pay phones can have a DIFFERENT default LD carrier for 1+ and 0+ calls. Look carefully at the LD company references on the instruction card(s) on that phone. It probably says that 1+ out of LATA toll calls are handled by AT&T and that 0+ out of LATA toll calls are handled by either AT&T or someone else. Far as I know, only one LD company allows (or has facilities for) cash payment for 1+ calls: AT&T. Try dialing 10333-0-700-555-4141 and I'll bet it will thank you for using US Sprint. Greg Monti, Arlington, Virginia; work +1 202 822-2633