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From: NBaheti.es@XEROX.COM
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Subject: 10xxx from phone booths
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Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 15:44:14 EDT
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	At many of Pacific Bell's phone booths (none of GTE's tho) I
notice the curious label "10xxx dialing available from this phone".
First I tried to simply connect to a few companies carriers (as can be
done at home on my ESS line) via 10xxx# which worked fine; I got thru
to the companies carriers but since I didn't have a valid charge code
I couldn't do anything.  From home if I dial "10xxx-xxx-xxx-xxxx" I
can connect to a long distance number and my line will be billed; is
there some way to do this at a pay phone?  Perhaps putting in coins
and then trying to dial out thru an ALDS?  Calling the operator got me
nowhere -- some didn't even appear to know what 10xxx dialing was!

	GTE's booths don't support any form of 10xxx, but their
operators knew it existed.

	While on the topic of ESS: do any of you Pac-Tel'ers know when
they plan to upgrade the last few exchanges???  On one of my phone
lines I can't even direct-dial international calls.
 
--Arun Baheti
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