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From: jsol@buit5.bu.edu (Jon Solomon)
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Subject: Re: Enterprise Numbers? Zenith Numbers?
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Date: 19 Dec 89 16:41:58 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 584, message 5 of 10

Telecom readers,

	What John Levine was talking about is really true. I know a
radio station in Connecticut which used enterprise numbers to
determine which exchange it would accept incoming calls from on a talk
show.

"Today's exchange is Middletown", for example. They didn't give out
their real number, so only if you called enterprise 9842 would the
call go through.  Incidentally the call letters for that station were
WTIC, and their enterprise number spells out that call.

800 numbers don't provide the granularity this sort of thing offers.
Also, the telephone companies probably won't let you change the 800
number's calling area every day like the Enterprise numbers would.

Enterprise numbers (at least in CT) were billed as collect calls.

jsol