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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 08:24:57 GMT
- From: dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: More Idiocy From GTE
- Message-ID: <telecom13.6.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- In <telecom13.3.11@eecs.nwu.edu> andys@internet.sbi.com (Andy Sherman)
- writes:
-
- > On 28 Dec 92 15:07:25 GMT, mattair@sun44.synercom.hounix.org (Charles
- > Mattair) said:
-
- >> As I'm at a friends house, I decide to put the call on calling card.
- >> 102880+10D. <boing> GTE. Huh ...? I know this is intralata but I
- >> told them to use AT&T. They can't override my choice of carrier can
- >> they? Try it again except as 102880 + 7D (713 has gone 1/0 + 10D on
- >> all LD calls but who knows what GTE is doing). <boing> GTE.
-
- > Local exchange carriers look at the whole number before passing it off
- > to an IXC, precisely because of what you tried to do. AT&T is very
- > likely not tariffed to carry that call, so the switch knows better
- > than you do, and routes it via the LEC. However, AT&T issued CIID
- > card should still be good for a GTE carried call. AT&T has reciprocal
- > card verification and billing agreements with virtually every LEC in
- > the country so that your AT&T card is AOS-proof and OCC-proof but not
- > LEC-proof. (That is a feature, not a bug).
-
- There actually is a way around this that usually works. AT&T does, in
- fact, have a 1-800 dial up number which they implemented after a bit
- of a fight with the FCC (which is a -very looong- story for another
- day).
-
- If you dial "1-800-CALL-ATT" you can access an ATT "Boing" or even an
- ATT -human- operator!
-
- (Similar schemes also work for most of the other carriers as well.
- you can -usually- make LOCAL LATA calls when you hook into the systems
- in this manner. This is quite helpful if you're calling from a coin
- phone, and your carrier is nice enough not to charge a surcharge ...)
-
-
- dannyb@panix.com
-
-