Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 10:39:14 EDT From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Stupid Payphone Tricks 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 498, Message 1 of 9 Lines: 16 Well, at least your call was 20 cents instead of the outrageous COCOT charges that pop up on phone bills. But the Bell Atlantic pay phones I have seen on the east coast say "Out of Change?" and go on to explain that you can use a calling card to place local calls. By the way, local calls with a calling card have these instructions: 0 + NPA + 7D if the area is set up for NXX prefixes. 0 + 7D if it is set up for NNX only. (But if it's for a local call to another NPA, I think you have to use 0 + NPA + 7D.) Speaking of which, doesn't 215 area in PA still advertise 0 + 7D on its Bell Atlantic payphones under the "Out of Change?" message? This is supposed to change to 0 + NPA + 7D, for the same reason that 1 + 7D is changing to 7D for long distance within 215.