Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!decuac!e2big.mko.dec.com!bacchus.pa.dec.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Joel B. Levin" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 1-555-1212 for Local Directory Assistance? Message-ID: <10705@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 10 Aug 90 21:20:57 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 36 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 559, Message 1 of 12 From: "David E. Bernholdt" >I was recently in Cincinatti, Ohio & needed a number from directory >assistance. I called the operator & discovered >that local directory assistance was 1-555-1212. I had never heard of >this before & wonder how common it is? . . . >[Moderator's Note: Here in Chicago, 555-anything gets Directory >Assistance, however you do need all seven digits before it will begin >to process the call. Neither this or 555-1212 is advertised for >Chicago area information calls, with 411 the preferred way of dialing >the call. PT] As has been pointed out, this works in a lot of places. Around here, at least in southern New Hampshire, it's mandatory. Directory assistance for anywhere in the state is 1-555-1212. And the -1212 is mandatory, too. Repair service for NET lines is listed as 1-555-1611 for residence and coin phones, 1-555-1515 for business phones (separate numbers are given for the towns with independent telcos, of course). Incidentally, three normal looking 1+ numbers are given for reaching the business office, with the notation that there is no charge for the call. This must be done with special software to remove charges to those particular numbers, since there is nothing special about them (e.g. 1-622-6233). In fact, when I call from work I call collect; if the line is answered by machine it begins with an instruction to long distance operators that all collect calls are accepted. JBL levin@bbn.com ...!bbn!levin (617) 873-3463