Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 01:38:11 GMT From: David Lemson Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: *-Prefixed Calls on Cellular Phones Message-ID: Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana 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 363, Message 2 of 10 Lines: 19 TONY@mcgill1.bitnet (Tony Harminc) writes: >> 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 >> 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 >stand ard. No so ? These calls are not free. Champaign-Urbana has one station , WLRW 94.5 FM with a free dial-in ("only from Ameritech" (the wireline carrier) phones) as *945. David Lemson University of Illinois Computing Services Consultant Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson