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Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls
From: John Levine <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 19 Aug 2005 16:41:01 -0000
That's why some states (e.g. Texas) require that all toll calls be dialed as 1+ _regardless of area code_, and local calls cannot be dialed as 1+. If you dial a number wrong, you get a message telling you how to do it properly (and why).
In some places that "solution" is _not_practical_. As in where the same three digit sequence is in use as a C.O. 'prefix', *and* as an areacode. (an where, in some 'perverse' situations, the foreign area-code is a 'non-toll' call, yet the bare prefix within the areacode is a toll call.
Oh, it works technically, local is 10D, toll is 1+10D, but since they don't have permissive dialing, Texans have to memorize lists of local prefixes in order to be able to use their phones. Way to go. I agree that life would be simpler if there were some straightforward way to ask telcos whether a call from a->b was local or toll. R's, John
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- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Jay R. Ashworth (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Andre Oppermann (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Jared Mauch (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Stephen Sprunk (Aug 19)
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- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Todd Vierling (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls John Levine (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Jeff Shultz (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Barry Shein (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Eric A. Hall (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls John R Levine (Aug 20)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Lou Katz (Aug 19)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Henry Yen (Aug 20)
- Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls Todd Vierling (Aug 20)
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