Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!nobody From: ames!mailrus!BBN.COM!levin@uunet.UU.NET (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Another lesson on 700/800/900 service Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 89 20:23:08 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 26 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 6 In article scotts@bu-it.BU.EDU writes: |AT&T 900 is a curious monster indeed. It was designed as a "mass |termination" service. When you dial a 900 # by AT&T (such as the |"hear space shuttle mission audio" number) you get routed to one of |twelve "nodes" strewn throughout the country. These nodes are each |capable of terminating 9,000 calls >PER SECOND<. . . . This is also the AT&T service which allows those obnoxious television "polls" ("dial this number to vote yes, this other number to vote no, and by the way this costs fifty cents"). |The one last dialing pattern that is worth mentioning is what's |called, "cut through dialing". Try dialing 10220#. If Western Union |comes to your town, you'll get a FG-A style dial tone. . . . I haven't tried for a long time, but in Nashua NH (603-880-) this did work for Sprint, i.e. 10777 + # would get you the same peculiar dial tone that their dial-in access number would, expecting you to reply with your access code and destination number. This was convenient because you could reach their customer service by dialling the above followed by the special 6-digit numbers (without access codes). /JBL == UUCP: {backbone}!bbn!levin POTS: (617) 873-3463 INTERNET: levin@bbn.com