Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!nobody From: dmr@csli.Stanford.EDU (Daniel M. Rosenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: finding ringback numbers Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 89 16:58:54 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 15 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 10, message 4 In article johnl@ima.ISC.COM writes: >I also note that telcos often use a range of prefixes, e.g. in New Jersey >they use 550 to 559 excepting 555. If you look at the assigned prefixes >and see ten in a row that are unused, that's probably it. >John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869 At least as of a few days ago, 550-xxxx, where xxxx are the last four digits of your phone number, will do ringback in North Jersey (201). This does not work for (most, if not all) payphones (but when it did, it was a favorite trick for the kids to leave the phone ringing in the Foodtown). -- ## Daniel M. Rosenberg /////// CSLI/Stanford //////////////// +1 (415) 328-1373 ## INTERNET: dmr@csli.stanford.edu //////////// UUCP: {ucbvax, decvax}!csli!dmr ## I've my opinions, Stanford theirs. I don't speak for them, nor they for me.#