Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Tom Perrine Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Who Answers the Phone in Fiji? Message-ID: <11559@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 31 Aug 90 18:13:59 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Tom Perrine Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, California Lines: 35 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 610, Message 1 of 11 In article <11511@accuvax.nwu.edu> rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) writes: >Zowie. Now, the only question is who on earth could possibly be >stupid enough to confuse "0-602-NNX-XXXX" with "01-679-NXXXX"... It >would've made more sense with calling Annapolis and got Athens, or ... >or called San Diego and got Perth (with an appropriate comment about >America's cup), or called Tampa and got Tokyo. About eight years ago I was calling work in San Diego from Pheonix using my brand-spanky-new calling card and I *did* get Perth, Australia. It is, of course, just a matter of an extra 0 at the beginning: 0 1 619 4XX XXXX San Diego via calling card 0 01 61 9 4XX XXXX International via calling card When I talked to the operator about the mis-dialed call, I mentioned that I had reached Perth by mistake and she immediately responded: "Oh, you were calling San Diego!". It is apparently a *very* common mis-dial. How convenient that my San Diego work number is also a handy mnemonic for what sounded like a very nice pub in Perth. If I ever get down that way, I'll be set. :-) Tom Perrine (tep) |Internet: tep@tots.Logicon.COM Logicon |UUCP: nosc!hamachi!tots!tep Tactical and Training Systems Division |-or- sun!suntan!tots!tep San Diego CA |GENIE: T.PERRINE |+1 619 455 1330