DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Douglas Scott Reuben) (10/24/90)
Hi- I tried calling 200-222-2222 from a New Jersey Bell Payphone im Morristown, NJ, and instead of getting it to read me back the number, I got a New Jersey Bell operator! (ANA = Automatic Number Announcement ? Is this the correct term?) I asked her what sort of operator she was, ie, was she a "special operator" or an intercept operator, and she said "Nope, just a local operator..." I tried it again to see if by accident I didn't misdial (maybe 00-222-2222 or something), and again, a NJ Bell operator. Perhaps if a COCOT would allow this, dialing 200-222-2222 in NJ may be a good way to get to talk to a NJ Bell operator. (Dialing 0 or 10NJB-0 doesn't always work ... [what else is new? :-( ]) They also seem to have disabled the Touch Tone test, which, from what I recall, was 0-959-1234. (NOT to be confused with the "coin test", which still seems to work ... from payphones, obviously.) Finally, speaking of New Jersey, I noticed that AT&T is now offering service at a "discount" rate from North Jersey to NYC, like New York Tel and New Jersey Bell do. As with the NYTel and NJBell plans, you need to have a certain volume of calls before the plan saves anything. Doug dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu dreuben@wesleyan.bitnet