[25083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Direct Phone Number which is regarding for AS297
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Fri Sep 10 11:22:32 1999
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:21:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: bb@zip.com.au, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19990910150634.23909.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 10 Sep 1999, John R. Levine wrote:
> It is my impression that the implementation of these numbers depend on
> a lot of complicated telco stuff, and you can't reliably expect them
> to work everywhere. Remember that the US has many long distance
> companies, and each toll-free number is individually routed to the
> carrier that handles it, meaning that someone has to do a database dip
> to route these calls to the appropriate carrier once they reach the
> US. It's not like normal numbers where every LD company can deliver
> any call.
Correct, this greatly depends on the international telco. Some countries
have used 888 and other blocks for other uses so this greatly complicates
matters. I was in Jamaica last month and had to used simplified 32 digit
dialing to call a 800 number and that only worked some of the time.
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