Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!elroy!gryphon!vector!telecom-request From: brian@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Brian Cuthie) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: recording from another area code/long-distance call to ANAC Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 88 18:46:45 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Reply-To: brian@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Brian Cuthie) Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 136, message 6 X-Submissions-To: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu (Mailing List Coordinator) X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) In article David_W_Tamkin@cup.portal.com writes: >When I dialed it directly (1-212-540-3000) I got rejection messages from US >Sprint, from MCI, and from AT&T indicating they could not complete the >call. The AT&T message was "Your call cannot be completed as dialed. >508-2T." Funny, I was calling from a New Hampshire telephone (NPA 603), >but got an area 508 message! > This gets even better ! I tried dialing 1-212-540-3000 from work, where we us MCI (ugh!), and got the following message everytime: "We're sorry. MCI does not complete calls to 976 at this time. 2BZ" WHAT !? I didn't dial a 976 number !! What's worse is: what if they *had* completed it ? I could have been charged out the whazoo for what I thought was a normal long distance call. What is going on here ?? Obviously there is some number translation going on here but who said they could do it to a more expensive number without telling me !? cheers, brian