edw@ihlpf.att.com (Edwin D Windes) (02/25/91)
> [Moderator's Note: I wonder if these numbers are virtually > non-blockable or if there is some point at which if enough people > (among the 3000 possible per number) are calling the number it will > return a busy signal, leaving your caller to ask later 'why was your > line busy?' (when in fact you had not been talking.) Sharing the same 800 number doesn't necessarily imply the bottleneck that you might envision. Routing to the carrier's operator system should be based on the 800-NXX, and wouldn't be much different than other 800 numbers. Once at that switch, the PIN would be collected, and the translation to the real number would be done. After this point, it wouldn't matter how the call was dialed.