Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 04 Jun 91 21:58:16 PDT From: The unknown Florentine Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Surprise!!! Message-ID: Organization: Sunshine in a box 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 438, Message 7 of 9 Lines: 18 Brian.Gordon@eng.sun.com (Brian Gordon) writes: > The good news is that, as of today, 01 Jun 91, PacBell has expanded its > local calling area, so I can call work, for example, without incurring > toll charges. > The bad news is that, without notice, the "permissive" 1-plus dialing > has stopped working. The normal dialing from 408 has been, for > example, just 415-336-xxxx. It was permissible, however, to dial > 1-415-336-xxxx, which, I presume, will someday become the norm. As of > this morning, using the "1-" form reaches a reorder tone ... In 415 land where I work, they did that to us a year ago. Our phone people here reprogrammed the phone system to prepend a 1 to any number that is long enough to include an area code( unless it already has one) . It is amazing the lengths we will go to to stay lazy.