Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 03:25:24 GMT From: wright@ais.org (Carl Wright) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: GTE Mobile Communications - LD Ripoff Message-ID: Organization: UMCC 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 487, Message 2 of 4 Lines: 22 c_bstratton@hns.com (Bob Stratton) writes: > Last weekend, I discovered that my phone will not dial 700 and 900 > numbers, but gives me the fast, high-pitched, "no service" reorder > when I dial them, with or without a leading "1". In GTE's defense, I would like to point out that is very difficult for the celluar provider to determine the cost of calls to 700 or 900 numbers without waiting for billing to come from the carriers supplying the services of the 700 or 900 number. Rather than try to solve this problem, they must be blocking these calls. Can anyone out there call these kinds of numbers with their cellular phone? Carl Wright | Lynn-Arthur Associates, Inc. Internet: wright@ais.org | 2350 Green Rd., #160 Voice: 1 313 995 5590 EST | Ann Arbor, MI 48105