cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (10/02/90)
Dick Bartley (last Saturday night, Sept. 29), on his apparently- syndicated oldies radio program, gave the request number as 1-800-LIVE-GOLD (yes, 1-800-LIVE-GOL, without the trailing D, is fine), and said (jokingly) to leave off the leading 1 if it is not required in your area. What could have prompted the remark about the leading 1? (I had the program tuned in on WQSR-FM, 105.7, Baltimore.) There are few areas left which do not require the leading 1 in front of a 10-digit long distance number. This is true for at least part of the following areas (I don't know of others): 408 in California 516, 914 in New York (Use of N0X/N1X prefixes sharply reduced this list.) [Moderator's Note: Carl, it was probably all very innocent. He's a radio host, not a telecom enthusiast, or telecom weirdo, as Steve Elias would say. What would he know about the obligatory one plus? He was probably reading from a script someone at the radio station gave him about how to receive phone calls, etc. PAT]
roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (10/04/90)
cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes: > There are few areas left which do not require the leading 1 in front > of a 10-digit long distance number. This is true for at least part of > the following areas (I don't know of others): > 408 in California > 516, 914 in New York > (Use of N0X/N1X prefixes sharply reduced this list.) Anchorage, Alaska does not require 1+ to preceed _any_ long-distance call. (it's all one NPA) That can make for some surprises if you should mistakenly dial Galena or some such place. Alaska intra-state rates are also very high. Kenai-Anchorage night rate was 0.10/min when I lived there ... Kenai-Seattle was only 0.12! Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu