cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (03/28/89)
Last night, I went to a Diamond State pay phone on 302-366-9xxx (Newark, Del.) and tried to place a 0+ call to a Va. suburb of DC on 703-893 prefix. It turns out I would have to dial 10288+0+703-893-xxxx to get AT&T routing. My attempt to use 0+703-893-xxxx got a recording "Your call cannot be completed as dialed" as did my attempt to use areacode 202 instead of 703. Mind you, this is not a COCOT.
ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (03/31/89)
Did you read the instructions on the phone? I tripped accross this and spent a few minutes before I looked carefully at the phone. It's becoming scarcer and scarcer but there are still areas where operating company pay phones are not set up for direct dialing of long distance calls. You have to go through the operator. -Ron