[35957] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Multiple Roots are "a good thing" - Karl Auerbach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Batchelor)
Mon Mar 19 19:49:09 2001
From: "Mike Batchelor" <mikebat@tmcs.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:36:28 -0800
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Why Dial 10-10-321?
10-10-321 can save you money.... and so on
Call 1-800-COLLECT and save a buck or two!
10-10-220 - it's just 7 cents after 20 minutes (Newman's ads)
There's a whole slew of others, not to mention all the different pre-paid
calling cards, each with a different procedure for placing a call.
How is adding .new.net to the end of a domain name any different from
pre-pending 10-10-220 to a phone number? if you sign up with AT&T, the
10-10-220 becomes transparent, just as if you install the new.net plugin.
I don't see any end in sight to the 10-10-xxx services, or the calling card
companies, and there's no end to the spam - on and off line - about making
easy money in an all-cash business selling phone cards.
I don't think these outfits have customers leaving in droves. Long distance
is highly competitive, despite a boggling array of different ways to place a
call.
Shawn McMahon
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:33:07AM -0800, Scott Francis wrote:
> >
> > yes, and multiple directory services are a great thing.
> However, when I dial
> > +1.310.642.0351 it reaches the same number no matter where the call
> > originates, in what phone network, who my LD carrier is, who my
> local telco
> > is, or how many switches it passes through on the way.
>
> On my phone I get an error if I dial that.
>
> I have to dial something else first to tell it that I'm looking for a
> number that's not on my local phone network, but instead on the one
> Bellsouth participates in.
>
>
