Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: lloyd!sunfs3!kent@husc6.harvard.edu (Kent Borg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Prevalence of 10xxx Dialing Message-ID: <4307@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Feb 90 21:29:48 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Kent Borg Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA Lines: 30 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 125, Message 2 of 11 In article <4008@accuvax.nwu.edu> Randal Schwartz writes: >'course, this works only in those areas that have 10XXX (Feature Group D?) >dialing. >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. I know that when I was visiting my parents over Christmas I tried 10222 and didn't get far. I asked the operator whether the line had equal access and was told no. I did get through with 950-1022. This was 20 miles west of Minneapolis in Mound (where Tonka Toys used to live), I think served by Continental. Was always a step-by-step when I was growing up, but that changed a few years ago, it sounds electronic now. Kent Borg lloyd!kent@husc6.harvard.edu or ...!husc6!lloyd!kent MacNet: kentborg H:(617) 776-6899 W:(617)426-3577 "So simple minded. Kindergarten level with no content, but it's beautifully landscaped, and the architecture is interesting." -my mother on Epcot Center