Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: lars@salt.acc.com (Lars J Poulsen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: One Solution To 800 Wrong Numbers Message-ID: <2668@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 7 Jan 90 06:02:20 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Lars J Poulsen Organization: Advanced Computer Communications, Santa Barbara, California Lines: 18 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 12, message 2 of 4 While "wrong number" calls at odd hours are a great nuisance to residences, they are no big deal to businesses. Maybe the solution is to move towards separation of residential number space and business number space. Most people expect an 800-number to be a business number, and may be less careful when dialing than they would for a regular number. How about assigning a separate NPA for residential use ? 810, anyone ? With new technology, and lots of small long-distance carriers to compete, residential 800-service is going to boom, and I think it would be better to have separate prefixes for residential and business than to have multiple mixed NPAs. / Lars Poulsen (800) 222-7308 or (805) 963-9431 ext 358 ACC Customer Service Affiliation stated for identification only My employer probably would not agree if he knew what I said !!