forrette@sim.berkeley.edu (Steve Forrette) (07/18/90)
If you call an 800 number that delivers the ANI to the customer, what shows up if you are calling from a cellular phone? I know it's not the actual mobile number, but is it at least some (seemingly) random number on one of the prefixes that your cellular carrier has dedicated for their use? [Moderator's Note: I tried it a couple months ago from my cell phone to my 800 number (on which I get ANI). It reported back some wierd number, and when I called the Name and Address Service, it came back listed to 'IBT Company', at an address on the southwest side of town which also happens to be a central office building with a cellular antenna on the roof. Dialing the number produced an intercept: "The number your have dialed, xyz-abcd is not in service for incoming calls." PT]
forrette@sim.berkeley.edu (Steve Forrette) (07/20/90)
In article <9893@accuvax.nwu.edu> TELECOM Moderator writes: >[Moderator's Note: I tried it a couple months ago from my cell phone >to my 800 number (on which I get ANI). It reported back some wierd >number, and when I called the Name and Address Service, it came back >listed to 'IBT Company', at an address on the southwest side of town >which also happens to be a central office building with a cellular >antenna on the roof. Dialing the number produced an intercept: "The >number your have dialed, xyz-abcd is not in service for incoming >calls." PT] Was the number you got on one of the cellular carrier's dedicated prefixes? Or was it from a "regular" prefix, that local POTS subscribers might be on? [Moderator's Note: It was an Illinois Bell prefix. 312-229 in fact. Apparently it is the place where Ameritech connects with IBT. PT]