Path: utzoo!telecom-request
Date: 30 Apr 91 07:12:14 PST
From: Javier Henderson - TMS Group <henderson@esvax.hamavnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: AT&T and 10xxx vs 800
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In article <telecom11.310.9@eecs.nwu.edu>, wah@zach.fit.edu (Bill
Huttig) 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 the 800 number listed in the original message from my
phone in Los Angeles and got the same response "to try it at a later
date."

So the original question as to whether AT&T would offer their network
from an 800 number is still valid?


Javier Henderson   Engineering Services  Avnet Computer  Los Angeles, CA
henderson@hamavnet.com  {simpact,asylum,elroy,dhw68k}!hamavnet!henderson