Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert 25-Sep-1989 0807) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Equal Access Pay Phones Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 12:06:34 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 57 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 408, message 5 of 9 Fr: Greg Monti Dt: 23 September 1989 Re: Equal Access Pay Phones The following were tried from a Bell Atlantic (C&P of Virginia) controlled pay phone in an equal access area. The phone was marked that 0+ and 1+ calls other than those authorized to be carried by C&P, would be carried by (in capital, red letters) AT&T COMMUNICATIONS. 1 700 555-4141 "You have reached the AT&T Long Distance Network" 10 222 1 700 555-4141 "You have reached the AT&T Long Distance Network" 10 333 1 700 555-4141 "You have reached the AT&T Long Distance Network" So, all 1+ calls are routed to AT&T for coin collection (although this call, being free, requested no money). 10 XXX codes are ignored for 1+. Then, the following were tried: dialed: 0 + valid out-of-LATA 10-digit number response: "bwongg (without the 'AT&T')" dialed: my valid 14-digit Bell Atlantic/AT&T card number response: "thank you for using AT&T" and call rings through dialed: 10 222 0 + valid out-of-LATA 10-digit number response: "bwongg" (without the 'AT&T')" dialed: my valid 14-digit Bell Atlantic/AT&T card number response: "thank you for using MCI" and call rings through dialed: 10 333 0 + valid out-of-LATA 10-digit number response: "bwongg (without the 'AT&T')" dialed: my valid 14-digit Bell Atlantic/AT&T card number response: thank you for using US Sprint" and call rings through dialed: 10 488 0 + valid out-of-LATA 10-digit number response: "at the tone, please dial your card number or dial zero for the ITI Operator" (pause) "beep (like an answering machine)" dialed: my valid Bell Atlantic/AT&T card number response (after about 10 seconds): "please wait for card verification" (incredibly long pause, about 30 seconds of dead silence) "thank you for using ITI; if the party you are calling is busy or does not answer, press 1 to leave up to a one minute message" call rings through So there is true equal access, using a Bell card number, for 0+ calls out of LATA. Long distance carriers like ITT (whose 10 XXX is 488, above), who do not offer their own operator service route your calls to an AOS, which I believe ITI is, for billing. Some AOS's, like ITI, offer value-added services as well, as above. Did the difference between the way the MCI/Sprint calls were handled and the way the ITT call was handled mean that Bell Atlantic (C&P) was providing the card verification for MCI and Sprint but not for ITT? Wonder what, if anything, I will get charged for this little experiment. Greg Monti, Arlington, Virginia; workplace +1 202 822-2459