vances@xenitec.uucp (Vance Shipley) (07/20/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0241m07@vector.dallas.tx.us> "Gil Kloepfer Jr." <harvard!talcott!limbic!gil@eddie.mit.edu> writes: >[Moderator's Note: Programming errors abound. For a laugh, try 312-922-4600. >For about seventy years, that was the main number for Sears, Roebuck & >Company at their downtown store and offices. They've been gone for years, >and now dialing the number results in a recording, "you must dial one before >calling this number". No matter how I dial it, with a one or not, that >recording still comes on the line. PT] I once got a call back from a pbx I had recently installed, they couldn't dial a particular NXX in a neighbouring NPA. They had automatic routing and an 'FX' that went to the same neighbouring NPA. I checked my programming remotely and found it entered correctly. I tried it myself (again remotely). the call didn't proceed when dialed with a preceeding '1'. This NXX was listed in the phone book as belonging to a foreign exchange, one needing a leading one (and a toll call). The telephone company had been doing rebuild in the area recently and twice before several trunks had been reversed, so I reported the trouble to Bell. What ensued was a very entertaining series of conference calls with CO people of different levels until finally I had been handed off to the very craftsmen who maintained the office serving this 'FX' line. He checked my statements and confirmed that that dialing arrangement was indeed the programmed routing for that exchange. It turned out that this entire switch had been allowing seven digit dialing (and consequently no toll!) to that one particular NXX within the same office as other 'toll' NXX's, contrary to the published tariff's (and the phone book). I was told that it had been that way for some matter of months. Vance Shipley uucp: ..!{uunet!}watmath!xenitec!vances Linton Technology - SwitchView INTERNET: vances@egvideo.uucp 180 Columbia Street West (soon) vances@xenitec.uucp Waterloo, Ontario CANADA tel: (519)746-4460 N2L 3L3 fax: (519)746-6884 # "Twenty-Five pins in a D shell does not RS-232C make!" #