DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Douglas Scott Reuben) (05/14/91)
Recently, Jack Dominey (jdominey@bsga05.attmail.com), amongst other things noted that: > It's available to customers using DDD, PRO WATS, or Reach Out > America if the customer is either directly billed by AT&T, or > by a former Bell Operating Company. Call Manager is apparently > not available in GTE or other independent company areas. > EXCEPTION: NYNEX and SNET only provide Call Manager billing to > PRO WATS customers. This was from some literature printed in February. I know New York Tel has this now, even in their crossbars. I tried it out at a friend's house in NYC, and it worked fine. The same guy later tried it out at some X-bar in Ithaca (607-257), and *said* it worked there, but he may have just entered a Calling Card number instead. I'm not sure he understood it correctly. SNET allows this in the West Hartford area as well. Haven't tried it the NYTel areas of CT (Greenwich, etc.), so I'm not sure about those towns. Neat thing about the service is that you can hit the octothorpe / pound/#-key to place a new call. No need to hang up. A real bonus when you have three-way calling that doesn't care about Answer Supervision. (IE, you have to hang up for a LONG time to place a new call. Ok, ok, three seconds isn't THAT long, but ...) Of course this won't work from payphones, but I am wondering if COCOTs have this blocked as well at the telco switch? (for those rare few which allow access to AT&T :( ) Doug dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu // dreuben@wesleyan.bitnet [Moderator's Note: In a message from a previous issue today, we were advised it should not work from COCOTS since they are noted as coin lines. Let us know if you find out otherwise. PAT]
"Craig R. Watkins" <CRW@icf.hrb.com> (05/17/91)
In article <telecom11.357.3@eecs.nwu.edu>, DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Douglas Scott Reuben) writes: > Neat thing about the service is that you can hit the octothorpe / > pound/#-key to place a new call. No need to hang up. A real bonus when > you have three-way calling that doesn't care about Answer Supervision. > (IE, you have to hang up for a LONG time to place a new call. Ok, ok, > three seconds isn't THAT long, but ...) One problem that I sometimes have is while calling a voicemail system. I dial with my account code, the voicemail system answers, and I hit # to get into a particular mode (directory lookup). I sometimes hit it before supervision and get thrown back to AT&T. A bit of a pain. Craig R. Watkins Internet: CRW@ICF.HRB.COM HRB Systems, Inc. Bitnet: CRW%HRB@PSUECL.Bitnet +1 814 238-4311 UUCP: ...!psuvax1!hrbicf!crw