Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway
From: jimmy@icjapan.uucp (Jim Gottlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Prefix '520' For Los Angeles Radio Stations
Message-ID: 
Date: 28 Sep 89 09:29:22 GMT
Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US
Reply-To: Jim Gottlieb 
Organization: Info Connections/VMJ, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Lines: 30
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 416, message 5 of 6

In article  joe@mojave.ati.com (Joe
Talbot) writes:

>It's really too bad that 520 in Anaheim didn't get used. The 520 prefix
>was already in service in LA years before 520 even got assigned. 520 in
>Anaheim has a whole bunch of big centrex/DID customers on it, no hope
>of any change.

A friend of mine who works for a phone company (I refuse to call GTE
"THE" phone company) told me several years back that the people in the
L.A. division of Pac*Bell tried real hard to get the 714 people to
agree to use 520 for their mass calling prefix.  But they already had
their 977 and didn't want to change it.  That was stupid
short-sightedness in my opinion, as that would have made life easier
for many, including DJs, who would have been able to say, "In the 213,
818, or 714, dial 520-KQLZ" instead of the now-required awkward
practice of having to give out two different numbers.

On the matter of mass calling to ticket numbers, I know for a fact that
Ticketron's numbers in the LA area, while being standard POTS lines,
are programmed to choke in each switch, and probably in the tandems as
well.  This makes a lot more sense than the bill Congress passed
requiring that auto-dialers not be capable of redialing a number more
than 16 times (after they had just castigated the Japanese for similar
stupid telecommunications rules).

                         Jim Gottlieb (remote from Tokyo)
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
        or  or 
Fax: 011-81-3-239-7453               Voice Mail: 011-81-3-944-6221 ID#82-42-424