Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "DOUGLAS SCOTT REUBEN)" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: 800 "Out-of-Band" Announcements Message-ID: <10915@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 16 Aug 90 01:40:05 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 33 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 572, Message 2 of 10 Hi! Quick question: Why do you get the recording: "Your call can not be completed as dialed..." when you call a working/valid Canadian 800 number that doesn't serve the US, while if you call a working/valid US number from the US, but which doesn't serve your band/area code/whatever, you will get the message: "You have dialed an 800 number which can not be reached from your calling area." Wouldn't it make more sense for AT&T to extend that "out of area" message to Canadian 800 numbers as well, so that US callers will realize that they must dial direct to Canada, rather than fall under the impression that the firm in Canada which they are trying to contact no longer exists? Just wondering... Doug dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu dreuben@wesleyan.bitnet [Moderator's Note: I think you will find the recordings vary from one office to another as to their precise wording. Someone who set up the recordings on your end simply was not consistent with the verbiage used in other areas. I don't think there is any special intent behind the version you hear versus what Canadians hear in reverse. PT]