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From: klg@dukeac.UUCP (Kim Greer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: special numbers for cellular phones
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Date: 2 Nov 88 14:08:14 GMT
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In telecom-v08i0159m05@vector.UUCP+ evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch)  writes:
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+In <telecom-v08i0153m07@vector.UUCP+, ssc-vax!clark@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Roger Clark Swann) writes:
++ Another example of this was discovered in Portland, OR recently when
++ the radio station KXL (I think), was advertising for motorists to call
++ the station with road reports using their cellular phones to dial: 231
++ 'this is a free call'  (Maybe someone in Portland can confirm this)
++
+Don't know about Portland, but Toronto radio station CFTR certainly does
+have a 'free' number for exactly this purpose. (They must take their
+traffic reports rather seriously - they also have two Cessnas airborne
+each rush hour.) Callers press "*680" (the station's frequency).
+
  I saw one the other day on I-85 near Hillsborough -- "DIAL *HP" to
get the Highway Patrol.

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Kim L. Greer
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