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From: chris@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Chris Johnston)
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Subject: Re: Why Can't I Use 1+10 Dialing For All Calls?
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Date: 12 Jan 90 01:08:44 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 24, message 11 of 12


In article <2790@accuvax.nwu.edu> you write:
>X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 21, message 3 of 3

>[Moderator's Note: Please double-check on this. The elevated platform
>is entirely in Chicago.
> (convoluted boundaries omitted) 
>pay phones on the platform and the station downstairs were all
>Hollycourt 5 numbers, which is a Chicago (312-465) exchange.  PT]

Patrick is right the Howard platform is entirely in Chicago.  I
checked a couple of pay phones including 312-465-9810.  The switch is
programmed incorrectly and won't allow 1-708- (or 1-312-) calls.
First it returned my quarter then rang about three times, the
recording was "We are sorry you must dial <pause> 1 before ...
<static> <static>".  The static was part of the recording.

By the way the half dozen pay phones I checked in Wilmette and
Evanston were incorrectly labeled with the 312 area code.

>Why can't I always use eleven digit dialing?  Why must I know the
>local geography to dial a phone?

cj