SPGDCM@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP (06/02/87)
MSG:FROM: SPGDCM --UCBCMSA TO: NETWORK --NETWORK 06/02/87 12:43:13 To: NETWORK --NETWORK Network Address From: Doug Mosher <SPGDCM at UCBCMSA> Title: MVS/Tandem Systems Manager (415)642-5823 Office: Evans 257, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Subject: 890 prefix To: telecom@buit1.bu.edu Pacific Bell in California uses the prefix "811" to enable customers to call their business office from anywhere in the lata, toll-free; this sounds like the 890 prefix service mentioned here earlier. Different final 4 digits are used for different prefixes. It seems almost overkill to allow calls from anywhere in the lata, in that my most urgent calls when travelling are not usually to telco business offices. However, if they have chosen to route all calls to a central location for service, it makes more sense. Bank of America here routes all calls about statements and what checks have cleared to one central office in Cal. for all x hundred branches, and no longer can you go to your branch and review your checks. Thanks, Doug Z 890 prefix
elric%lll-crg.ARPA@csustan.UUCP (Elric of Imrryr) (06/07/87)
Is this prefix (890) universally unused and
thus available to the LOCs to use for this service, or is this just a Bell of
PA special?
Sincerely,
Frank Prindle
Prindle@NADC.arpa
Well here in California (Pacfic Bell), 890 is one of the ringback
prefixes. PacBel has been using '811' as the toll free prefix to call
your service rep.
Brad
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| in my next transmission...Schuttenberg@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA (Jim) (06/15/87)
Frank Prindle asks: "Is [the 890] prefix universally unused and thus
available to the LOCs to use for this service, or is this just a Bell
of PA special?"
A quick perusal of Mountain Bell's phone directory here in Phoenix
reveals 890 to be a plain, ordinary exchange, located in Mesa.
Jim Schuttenberg
Honeywell Bull Inc.