Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!warble!vector!nobody From: USEREAFJ%mts.rpi.edu@itsgw.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: (none) Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 88 02:33:32 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 32 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 139, message 5 X-Submissions-To: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu (Mailing List Coordinator) X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) Regarding ringback, New England Tel and Southern New England Tel seem to use the 951-xxxx to 998-xxxx pattern. In Middletown, CT, 992 to 996 worked fine, whereas in other areas in Mass and Rhode Island seem to use lower the 981 to 991 "prefixes". - New York City had/has(?) a weird system, where you dial 660 from any phone in any exchange, wait for a dial tone, and then dial 2# (or 112 from a rotary), get a higher pitched tone, hang up, and the phone rings. It no longer seems to work, but besides doing ringback, 660-4# would also "hang" your phone for a while. Callers would get a busy signal, and you couldn't get a dial tone for about 3 minutes. I'm sure there were other funtions as well, although I never figured them out. Is the 660 still used for anything? When I dial it I get a second tone, but none of the old numbers seem to do anything... - Oh, and incidentally, in case no one mentioned it, ANAC (ANI?) for 212/718 New York City is 958, and dialing exchange xxx-9901 will usually get a recording or computer telling you the area code and exchange you dialed. (IE, 516-484-9901 says "You have reached the Roslyn DMS, handling codes 621,625 626, 629, 686 and 484. ESS's and crossbars generally have a computer recording, although the 718-358 (FLUshing) 5ESS also has a 'DMS-type' recording.) - Does anyone have the ANAC code(s) for Westchester County and/or Connecticut (the non-NY Tel area of CT, which is most of it, . fortunately! :-) ) I've tried to find them for CT for some time, but there doesn't seem to be one. The linemen just call the operator and ask her. Guess it's just as good.... - Doug - usereafj@rpitsmts.bitnet (temp)