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- Ever heard (actually, seen) people on various hacking boards around
- the country telling you how you are going to get caught for sure if you
- use the in state-WATS (950) telephone numbers to make your phreaks off of?
- This file is to tell you what the story is with 950's and how to SAFELY use
- them.
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- The 950 prefix was created by the old Bell System for all the SSC's
- (Specialized Common Carrier), or Extenders as they are called, to place
- their services upon. This was done for the long distance company's benefit
- so they could have the same dial up in all cities across the USA. For some
- reason, the Long Distance companies rejected the 950 prefix in favor of
- local lines and 1-800 numbers.
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- Disadvantages to 950's are that they are run on a special ESS of
- their own that can trace your call before you can say 'Shit!'. But tracing
- only occurs on special occasions. The companies on 950's will only trace
- when the computer controlling the calls sees that there is an unusually
- high number of calls to the extender on that particular day. The computer
- then will auto-trace every 100th call or so. Which means that, if used in
- moderation, 950's are fantastic!
-
- Advantages: By having the same dial up in all cities, you can go on
- vacation and just hack codes to use for while you are there on your
- favorite 950 extender. Being a free call (in most cases, some phones not)
- from a pay phone, this is very advantageous. Also, and anyone who has used
- a 950 knows this, the connections on 950 extenders are VERY clear usually,
- making for excellent error-free data transfer on AE lines, etc.
-
- With the breakup of the Bell System in January of 1984, the 950
- prefix was supposed to be dragged down with it and the companies were sup-
- posed to have switched over to either local or 1-800 numbers, but as is
- very typical of the phone company, they never got around to it.
-
- Here is the list of the 950's that are currently in use in the U.S.:
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- 950-1000..........Southern Pacific Communications
- 950-1022..........MCI Exec-U-Net
- 950-1033..........U.S. Telephone
- 950-1044..........AllNet
- 950-1066..........Lexitel
- 950-1088..........SBS Skyline
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- Personally, I favor the use of 950-1088, because it has many users
- and the codes (which, by the way are 6 digits, but they are switching over
- to 8 digits) are easy to hack out from a pay phone. You may want to try
- the other services so you can have a few codes from each available for use.
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- The Wanderjahr
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