Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request
From: galen@toad.com (Galen Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: PacBell Blocks 950-xxxx
Message-ID: <telecom11.231.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 10:00:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: eecs.telecom11.231.9
Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
Reply-To: Galen Wolf <hoptoad.UUCP!galen@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Organization: Gentle Wolf
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 231, Message 9 of 12

It used to be that it was always chancey to run into various COCOT's in
the SF Bay Area, so I'd always look for the PacBell payphones to place
my 950-0488 calling card calls, but as of a couple weeks ago, every
PacBell payphone I can find in Marin County is blocking touch-tones
after completing the connection to ITT/MetroMedia.  If I understand
correctly from reading here, this is illegal blocking of equal access,
and should be reported to the PUC, no?


galen@toad.com {amdahl,pacbell,pyramid,sun,ucsfcgl,uunet}!hoptoad!galen 
(Galen Wolf, Anu, POB 2010, Sparks, NV 89432-2010)
(800)SKY-PAGE, PIN:234-0000#, your (AAA)NNN-NNNN#


[Moderator's Note: It may be some technical problem instead, so before
reporting it to the PUC, why not ask PacBell what is going on?   PAT]