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Subject: Use of 10732 for LD Calls
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Date: 4 Dec 90 16:53:46 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 863, Message 9 of 9


I called from an AT&T pay phone on 301-272, and made credit card call
to time and weather service in Delaware by punching in
10732-0-302-633-1212 and after I punched in my credit card number, it
went thru as if I had punched in 10288 instead of 10732.  (i.e., via
AT&T)


[Moderator's Note: I did almost the very same thing from a payphone on
the 312-743 exchange. I dialed 10732-0 and asked the operator how much
change I would need to get for the coin box to place a call to
Kalamazoo and Timbuck, too.  She had never heard of Timbuck, so it
took her awhile to find the rate for that one. I mentioned to her that
my five year old grandson down in Timbuck had recommended routing all
my DDD traffic over 10732 in the future and escrowing the savings into
his college fund since it was unlikely the salary I'm paid as a
mild-mannered reporter for that great metropolitan daily TELECOM
Digest would ever be enough to buy a pot to cook in, let alone pay for
his tuition. The operator said she had never heard of 10732 and was
that one of those new alternate carrier services ... Really, the only
thing I've found different between 10288 and 10732 is the latter won't
complete a call to 700-555-4141.Other than that, they are identical in
how they operate, it seems. But are the rates lower on 10732? Do the
Reach Out Plans do their thing?  My next bill will tell the answer.  PAT]