Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Bay of Eagle Fiasco (really: 12345678) Message-ID:Date: 10 Aug 89 13:44:30 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton MA USA Lines: 25 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 288, message 10 of 11 Somebody wrote, >>Once upon a time, my brother (who was about ten years old at the time) picked >>up the phone and dialed: > >>1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 This was covered in Art Brothers' column "The Party Line" in Telephone Engineer and Management a couple years back. Now Art owns Beehive Tel in Grouse Creek, Utah, which serves zillions of acres of barren desert, with a thousand or so subscribers spread across six exchanges. Seriously remote territory west of the salt flats and along the NV border. And Mountain Bell hates him. (Art's a professional iconoclast who may have gone into the phone business for the sake of being able to argue with Ma Bell. He's the first and often last thing I read in TE&M.) So when he opened a new exchange near some mining camp or other such outpost (using Harris D-1200 PBXs as COs, btw), Ma gave him the prefix "234". Gee, that's a nice one, though Art. Until he noticed thousands of incompleted pegs to a vacant number. Yep, 234-5678. In Utah, as in many other areas, 1+ is used for all toll, including intra-area code. So 12345678 is a valid dialing arrangement. The 90 doesn't do anything. fred