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From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook)
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Subject: Re: Inexpensive Way to Increase Calling Area Needed
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In article <12749@accuvax.nwu.edu>, lee@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Bob Lee)
writes:

> If you could find a friend in an area whose calling area is local to
> you and to the area you want to call, they could get a line installed
> there with call forwarding which they could program for you.  They

I do something similar for friends in the suburbs all the time.  I
have residential Centrex service, and there is a Call Transfer
feature.  They call me, tell me the number they want (local to
me ... toll to them), then I hookflash, get second dial tone, dial the
number, and hang up.  My phone is then free, and it ties up a couple
of trunks in my CO.  One could build a cheap register-resend circuit
to do this automatically (answers, stores the number you dial in,
hookflashes, redials the number that you have just entered, then hangs
up for the next call) ... in fact, I am sure that this is how some of
the private EAS companies around here have done this.


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