Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 00:02:43 -0400 From: Charlie Mingo Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: C&P Outage: What's the Story? 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 492, Message 9 of 9 Lines: 20 I presume that by the time you read this, everyone will have heard of the service outage in Bell Atlantic territory which caused six million subscribers in seven states to lose local service for the afternoon of June 26th. (Supposedly some new software in a Baltimore switch caused the CCN7 signalling between local CO's to misbehave.) In spite of the local service outage, people could still place (and receive) long-distance calls, and the local TV station was advising viewers to use MCI's access code (10222) to call local numbers via "long distance". I tried it and it worked, but I wondered if it was legal for MCI to carry intra-LATA calls. Didn't John Higdon mention that all IXC's (other than ThriftyTel) should reject intra-LATA calls, or does this restriction apply only to AT&T? Note that MCI would reject local calls within my own area code (202), but would connect me to local numbers in 703 and 301.