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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1991 16:53:42 GMT
From: Phillip Wherry <psw@richard.mitre.org>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: AT&T and 10xxx vs 800
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In article <telecom11.310.9@eecs.nwu.edu> Bill Huttig <wah@zach.fit.
edu> writes:

> "The 800 number you have dialed is not yet in service ... Please
> try this number at a later date."

> [Moderator's Note: I think what it means is that someone at the local
> telco serving 407-676 misprogrammed the response code which is played
> when the number is dialed. I think they meant to say merely, 'the
> number is not in service from your area ...'       PAT]

I just tried dialing this number from 804-220 and 804-229. Same message.


Phillip Wherry   The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA   psw@mitre.org


[Moderator's Note: I should have tried it also, I guess ... having
done so I also get the same message.   PAT]