Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!lll-winken!telecom-request From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T's Dream-On Ad Campaign Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 91 01:56:48 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 38 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 234, Message 2 of 10 In oberman@rogue.llnl.gov writes: > Excuse me, but I don't get the point. I can use 10Nnnn dialing either > with a "0" for credit card calls or a "1" for billed calls from > private phones. .. if they have Equal Access, which is mandated for BOC's. Is it mandatory for independent carriers? Are there still areas in the country that are, er, unEqual? And there's still a problem if you're inside somebody else's PBX system, many of which really don't appreciate 10XXX. Anecdote warning: For a long time, our analog Centrex system at UNL permitted the 10xxx override in a roundabout way. LD calls have to be dialed as 9-area code-number. I took a guess that the '9' was getting passed on as a '1' to the outside world, so I used 90xxx-1-area code-number... and the (700) number reported the right carrier. The Telecommunications Office billed me AT&T rates regardless, but the point was to get on a better line (yes, there was a region where an alternate carrier had better lines than AT&T during that time). When the Centrex was upgraded from an analog switch to a digital switch, the 0xxx1 trick magically failed to work. (This is how it was described to me, so I may be wrong about the switches.) UNL also goofed up the billing that month, during which they 1) failed to apply an AT&T rate cut and 2) forgot how to perform answer supervision, leading to a whole slew of one-minute calls. They rectified both a couple of months later. Michael Ho, University of Nebraska Internet: ho@hoss.unl.edu Disclaimer: Views expressed within are purely personal and should not be applied to any university agency.