[83627] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Aug 19 12:42:02 2005
Date: 19 Aug 2005 16:41:01 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200508181913.j7IJDKkg015150@host122.r-bonomi.com>
Cc: bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> That's why some states (e.g. Texas) require that all toll calls be
>> dialed as 1+ _regardless of area code_, and local calls cannot be
>> dialed as 1+. If you dial a number wrong, you get a message
>> telling you how to do it properly (and why).
>In some places that "solution" is _not_practical_. As in where the same
>three digit sequence is in use as a C.O. 'prefix', *and* as an areacode.
>(an where, in some 'perverse' situations, the foreign area-code is a
>'non-toll' call, yet the bare prefix within the areacode is a toll call.
Oh, it works technically, local is 10D, toll is 1+10D, but since they
don't have permissive dialing, Texans have to memorize lists of local
prefixes in order to be able to use their phones. Way to go.
I agree that life would be simpler if there were some straightforward
way to ask telcos whether a call from a->b was local or toll.
R's,
John
