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From: IZZYAS1@oac.ucla.edu (Andy Jacobson)
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Subject: Re: Non-ATT 800 Calls.
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Date: 8 Oct 90 03:00:00 GMT
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My experience has been the same as Doug Reuben's. I tried calling
800-666-6258 from 415-552 (one of the last XB's in San Francisco.) and
got a recording to the effect that the call could not be completed.

Apparently the EM switches can not support calls to non-ATT 800
numbers. I attempted it in the first place to see if the ANI demo
would work from an EM switch, which I guess I'll never know as the
demo is now gone (at least from all the lines I've tried here in L.A.)
being replaced by an MCI version of the old "The number you have
dialed,....." recording.

In reference to a long running debate some months back, when the ANI
demo did work, I tried it from UCLA's Northern Telcom PBX, and it of
course read back to me the outgoing trunk number, which is the main
incomming number for campus, and the only number associated with the
call. DID numbers normally don't show up on calls originating from
trunk groups.


Andy Jacobson
(izzyas1@oac.ucla.edu)