Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!oberon!bbn!mit-eddie!killer!vector!nobody From: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: How US West handles 976 Blocking Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 89 18:36:39 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 24 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 30, message 5 In article dgc@math.ucla.edu writes: >... >2. When we had finally were able to have 976 numbers blocked, our local > telco (General Telephone) informed us, IN WRITING, that, pursuant > to Federal law, it was not blocking out-of-state, long-distance 976 > numbers. Whether some individual long-distance services do so, I >... US WEST's 976 information says "The following type of calls are denied access to Dial Data 976 Service." (then states sometimes it may not be able to deny all of them...) Inter-LATA, Intra-LATA, Calling Card, Third Number Billing, Coin & Coinless Originated, Operator Assisted, Hotel Originated, WATS, Feature Groups ABC&D, Independent Originated. So perhaps GT cannot block your attempts to call long-distance 976, but the distant CO might block the call. I guess the federal laws preserve your ability to call anyone, but who you're calling can refuse to accept your call. -- Scot E. Wilcoxon sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco Data Progress UNIX masts & rigging +1 612-825-2607 uunet!datapg!sewilco I'm just reversing entropy while waiting for the Big Crunch.