Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 19 May 91 12:51:04 CDT From: "Roy M. Silvernail" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 50k Counts of Wire Fraud Message-ID: Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN 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 376, Message 10 of 10 Lines: 22 TONY@mcgill1.bitnet (Tony Harminc) writes: > Are you USAers happy with the possibility of paying for seven-digit > calls? Why is there no 1+ requirement to let you know ? It seems a > little silly that everyone should have to remember a huge list of > prefixes in order to avoid placing expensive calls, whether 540 or 976 > type, or just normal toll calls within the NPA. I used to have to do just that in Alaska. Toll calls from Anchorage did not require a leading 1 when I lived there, and you could as easily be calling across the state as across town. While it didn't have _quite_ the potential for surprise as the 540 scam, it could still be expensive. Alaska used to have abominable in-state rates. It was cheaper to call Los Angeles than to call Nome. I don't know what the rates are, these days. Roy M. Silvernail roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu roy@cybrspc.uucp (maybe!)