Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: SDRY@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sergio Gelato) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New Area Codes and Intl. Dialling Message-ID: <15107@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 00:21:00 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 856, Message 12 of 12 In article <14934@accuvax.nwu.edu> U5437880@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes: >Try dialling 19 44 81 603 xxxx, and see if you get a French intercept. >[Moderator's Note: I just now tried it from Chicago, USA. It accepted >the entire number (that is, 011-44-81-603-four more), and the response >to me on each of several attempts was the same recorded announcement: >You call cannot be completed by the telephone company in the country >you are calling at this time. Please try your call again later." >Interestingly, my call had left Chicago, gotten out of the USA and was >sitting in limbo somewhere. Instead of playing the French recording to >me, when AT&T heard something 'go wrong' over there, it yanked the >connection back and played an English language message instead. PAT] One good reason why the Moderator didn't get a French language intercept with this number (+44 81 etc.) is that 44 is the country code for the United Kingdom (that of France being 33). A French intercept may have been expected only if he had dialled the number from France, where "+" translates to "19~". This does not invalidate the conclusion about who generated the intercept message. Sergio Gelato [Moderator's Note: The emphasis is on the wrong thing here. It is not so much that it was an English speaking country, i.e. UK instead of a French speaking country, but that AT&T yanked the cord when the network sensed it wasn't getting anywhere on the other end for some reason, and substituted an AT&T recording. The conection to the UK was made, I know I had gotten as far as some switch in the UK, but no ring/no answer/no busy signal. In a few seconds, bing! I am back on the AT&T switch here in Chicago (apparently) being told the foreign telephone company can't handle it right now. PAT]