Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: map@gaak.lcs.mit.edu (Michael A. Patton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Long distance access Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 89 17:36:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 12 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 61, message 9 of 9 (Michael I. Bushnell asks about operator access at UNM) Although it doesn't solve your problem directly, MIT has a system that gets around these requirements. The MIT phone switch has a trunk group that appears to TSPS systems to be Charge-A-Call phones. There is an access code that almost any (except a class more restrictive than your class 0) extension can dial and become an AT&T Charge-A-Call phone to place such calls. In fact this is the normal way to place long distance operator assisted calls. You can also use it to place any FREE calls and to access ALDCs and such. Since it's tariffed exactly like a Charge-A-Call where there is no way to charge back, AT&T handles all the control and billing.