Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Prevalence of 10xxx Dialing Message-ID: <4141@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 20 Feb 90 16:27:14 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Cowan Organization: ESCC, New York City 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 116, message 8 of 8 In article <4008@accuvax.nwu.edu>, Randal Schwartz writes: >Is that everywhere *except* the backwaters of GTE Northwest, now? Or >are there still many places that don't have 10XXX dialing? >We can do 950-xxxx and "select our default 1+ carrier", but 10XXX is >only for the local Bell-co (US West, or whatever they changed their >name to this week) customers. As I understand it, only Bell (ex-AT&T) telcos plus GTE must offer this service, and lots of local independent telcos don't. Taconic Telephone, for example, the first all-digital local telco in the country, has no plans to offer any LD carrier except AT&T. (I suppose that GTE comes under the terms of the MFJ because it owns Sprint. True or false?)