Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!telecom-request From: brendan@otc.otca.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Finding Your Own Phone Number (in Australia) Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 06:53:00 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 17 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 158, Message 8 of 13 In Australia, finding out your own phone number is very easy (in areas with digital exchanges). Just dial 19123 and a clear digitised voice recites your phone number twice, including area code. However, it doesn't work for public phone boxes (*all* of which have silent numbers in Australia), or through most PABXs. It was very handy to know this when my brother moved to a new house recently. The phone number he was given was in fact incorrect. By dialling 19123, the real phone number was revealed - and it was nothing like what he was told!! Brendan Jones ACSnet: brendan@otc.otca.oz.au R&D Contractor UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!otc.otca.oz.au!brendan Services R&D Phone: (02)2873128 Fax: (02)2873299 |||| OTC || Snail: GPO Box 7000, Sydney 2001, AUSTRALIA