Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: schwartz@aiag.enet.dec.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Explain This Conversation Message-ID: <11520@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 31 Aug 90 02:19:48 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 20 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 608, Message 5 of 11 >I tried to place a long distance call the other day from a >bedside phone in a hospital room the other day. I was in 212 and was >trying to call 512 (both served by NYTel ... 212 (New York City; also 718) and 516 (Long Island) are in the same LATA (as well as part of 914 and a smidgen of 203). Your call was, in fact, local, and was probably cheaper using NYTel than any LD carrier. >the first operator says something like "I have a customer requesting >AT&T long distance", and then gets off the circuit. The AT&T operator >takes the number I'm calling and my calling card number, and connects >me. Why the little inter-operator conversation? Sounds like the NYTel operator was telling the AT&T operator, "This customer insists on using a LD carrier for a local call." Steve