woolsey@nsc.nsc.com (Jeff Woolsey) (03/26/89)
I walked up to a genuine Pacific*Bell coin phone in 408-738 this afternoon. It had a placard on it that proclaimed that 10XXX calls could be placed from the phone, and that AT&T was the long distance carrier for that phone. I found out that they weren't kidding: I dialed 10333-1-700-555-4141 and got a recording saying that I had reached the AT&T long distance network. I dialed 10222-1-700-555-4141 and got the same announcement. Evidently the CO routes any 10XXX-1-NXX-NXX-XXXX call to AT&T for coin collection (unless XXX is not a valid carrier). Seems mighty strange to me since the days of free calls via this method are long gone, and most such calls got an operator of some kind at the carrier of your choice, exactly like 10XXX-0-NXX-NXX-XXXX calls. It seems you can't trust ANYBODY these days. -- -- Qualify nearly everything. Jeff Woolsey woolsey@nsc.NSC.COM -or- woolsey@umn-cs.cs.umn.EDU