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From: 443114@acadvm1.uottawa.ca (Eric Skinner)
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Subject: Re: Maestro Phones From Northern Telecom
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Date: 16 Mar 91 17:17:31 GMT
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(Collect call from payphone caused erroneous message on Call*ID box.)

> [Moderator's Note: Probably the reason it said 'long distance' was
> because the payphone was a COCOT, and the Alternate Operater
> Disservice involved in handling the collect call was not really an
> Operator, and they splashed the call via DDD from some other location.
> Your telco saw it coming in from another LATA as just a regular call.  PAT]

Impossible.  No COCOTs in Bell Canada territory (yet -- knock wood.)
Interestingly, operators here still identify themselves as "Bell
Operator."


Eric Skinner                      443114@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
University of Ottawa                         Ottawa, Canada