DREUBEN@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU (Douglas Scott Reuben) (05/19/88)
As a small addition to the post on AIS from last week, I called
a "Not-in-service" number outside of Toronto, Ontario a few days ago,
and was handed off to an intercept operator. After I told her the number
I was trying to reach, she typed in into her computer, and it then told
me what the new number was.
I realize that they use this system in some "out-of-the-way"
areas in the U.S., but didn't think a somewhat heavily populated area
of Canada would still use such a system. At least in keeps the intercept
operators busy up there!
(Also, I've noticed that if the intercept op. is not in-state,
or in the same country as in the case of Canada, when you reach one,
they can't hear you, and say "If you are calling from out of state (or
in Canada from "the States"), have your operator place the call. The
local op then has to go through the inward operators to put the call
through so that the distant intercept operator can be told the number
dialed. This seems to be a rather time consuming and costly way to go
about talking to a distant intercept operator...Any ideas on why they
do it that way???)
-Doug
DReuben%Eagle.Weslyn@Wesleyan.Bitnet
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