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From: Linc Madison <rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: 800 "Out-of-Band" Announcements
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Date: 23 Aug 90 10:50:14 GMT
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Two years ago, I was in western Canada, and placed a couple of calls
to the 800 number for the ATM-locator service on my ATM network.  They
use the same 800 number for calls from anywhere in the US/Canada.

 From Vancouver, B.C., the calls completed fine, but then when I tried
 from Victoria, B.C., I got a recording that NNX-XXXX is not a working
number.  I didn't get a chance to look up to see where the particular
prefix was located, but it seemed that the mapping of the 800 number
to a POTS line was very specific, or else the switch on the island was
out of date in its database.

Linc Madison   =   linc@tongue1.berkeley.edu