Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 09:03:33 PDT From: Brian Gordon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Surprise!! 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 435, Message 5 of 11 Lines: 13 I just talked to my local business office about the change in the "permissive" 1+ dialing change. To my surprise, they seemed to know exactly what I was talking about. Their rule is that the leading "1" indicates a toll call. Before the widening of the local area on Saturday, the numbers of interest to me (415/336-xxxx, for example) were toll calls, and now they are not. Hence it used to be permissible to dial 1-415/336-xxxx and now it is not -- is is, in essence, rejected by the toll-call processing equipemnt. So I get cheaper calls, but have to change a lot of entries for my modem's phonebook.