Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: mike@turing.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Long distance access Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 89 09:17:37 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 48 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 54, message 3 of 7 Our glorious University of Nothing Much has its own phone exchange. Put simply, for non-campus calls, there are 5 types of phones. Class 0 is allowed to only dial on-campus numbers. Class 1 is allowed to dial only local calls with 9+XXX-XXXX. Hitting 8 results in a "no service" tone--an indication from the UNM phone exchange that you are trying to do somethings you're not allowed to do. Class 2 can also make operator assisted long distance calls by dialing 8-0-(long distance number). The operator is the UNM operator, and will only allow card calling or collect calls. Class 3 is allowed to dial long distance in the country by dialing 8-XXXXXX-1-XXX-XXX-XXXX where the first XXXXXX is a UNM account number. Class 4 is like class three, but is additionally allowed international calls (there are state laws regulating who can call/travel outside the country on state funds). Most public phones and the like are class 0 or 1. Class 2 phones aren't even allowed to make 800 number calls, but that's not too bad. Where I work, we have a few class 1 phones and a few class 3 phones (and we have an account number for long distance calling). Occasionally we want to make long distance calls from the lab of a personal nature. Naturally, it is illegitimate to charge these to UNM, so we would like to get an operator. This is fine: if we dial 8-XXXXXX-0 from a class 3 phone, we get a UNM operator who will transfer us to an AT&T operator (if we cheat and just make a normal OAC, UNM has an account number to bill). The AT&T operator nicely places the call. Unfortunately, the UNM operators only work 8-5 M-F. SIGH! Off hours we would like to get to an AT&T operator to make collect or calling card calls. But there is *no*way* to get a UNM operator, or make ANY operator assisted call off hours. We tried 9-0, 8-XXXXXX-0, etc. None of it worked. Immediate "failure tone" from the UNM system when we try (since the operators aren't at work). Questions: 1: is there an 800 number that can connect us to a long distance operator who will place a call for collect or calling card calling? 2: is there a sneaky fashion (for anyone who has a similar phone "system") for evading the stupid restriction that we have to go through a UNM operator? Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true GIG! \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@turing.cs..unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. Hmmmm.............. / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!