Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 14 May 91 18:31:12 EDT From: Tony Harminc Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: *-Prefixed Calls on Cellular Phones Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 360, Message 9 of 11 Lines: 18 > Plus in some city (I can't remember which now), there was a radio > station that advertised it's Cellular Traffic number as *WXXX (or > what-ever its call letters were), this rang at the main switchboard > for the radio station (used to report accidents and traffic jams). It > was free from all Cellular telephones, don't know about roamers. Not > surprisingly, the radio station advertised the two Cellular carriers > constantly (I assume in trade for this *-number). Around here (Bell Cellular and Cantel territory) the radio stations tell you to dial #nnn where nnn is their frequency (or some variation). So Toronto station CBL at 740 AM tells you to dial #740, while CHFI at 98.1 FM has #981. I had assumed this was some sort of standard. No so ? These calls are not free. Tony Harminc