Over the past few days, several sources (including Ian Angus' Telemanagement Canada, as posted this Monday in Telecom Digest), have stated that VeriZon has...
I can remember dialling into various countries in the early 1990's, and exploring the telephone systems at the time. During 1991, I can remember calling a...
I had reported in previous posts back in October (and maybe November) that Qwest-LD (101-0432+) and Vartec (101-0811+ and several other carrier access codes),...
I found the following docket at the Washington (state) UTC (Utilities and Transportation Commission) website, docket #031803. The main URL for the WUTC site:...
... Make that previous ratecenter consolidation in Washington state involving the ILEcs of Qwest-USWest-PacNWBell, VeriZon-GTE, and CenturyTel. This appears to...
The test number for the 909/951 NPA split in eastern Southern California was 951-951-0951. The 951-951 NPA-NXX c.o.code did *NOT* "pre-exist" as 909-951 --...
I was listening to an episode of the "Phil Harris & Alice Faye" radio sitcom, from sometime during the late 1940s or early 1950s. In the particular episode, at...
It seemed to me that Zenith was more common in non-Bell and even non-GTE areas. I only ever saw it used in southern Iowa, in an area served by then-Continental...
I've seen Enterprise numbers listed for toll free numbers in Orlando (Bell territory). In the directory the number was listed in, it said "Dial Operator and ...
... I remember back in the days prior to 911 service, one could call the equivalent of 911 by dialing 0 and asking for Zenith 9000 (or 90,000, it's been a long...
... No, that was the case with Bell Canada clients in general... I remember this too from when I was younger, in the front of the old phone book which sat...
Bell Canada had quite a few Zenith numbers for businesses (as well as Zenith 90000 for emergencies), as late as the mid-1970s and maybe beyond. But I've never...
... Toronto Reference Library (the main one at Bloor/Yonge) also had the Bell microfilm set for Ontario & Quebec. Ottawa Public Library main branch downtown...
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At least one local phone company used a Zenith number...the Iowa Telephone Company ("A Member of the Continental Telephone System"). You can see its Zenith...
Toll-Free Numbering and Routing info has NOT been the "immediate" responsibility of NANPA or TRA for over ten years now, regardless of whether NANPA was...
Zenith was listed as late as the 1990s in our phone book (not sure how late, but I know the 2004 directory doesn't have it). I've scanned all of our...
Per SBC Texas General Exchange Tariff, Section 38, the Allen rate center in LATA 552 will no longer be a mandatory EACS rate center, effective November 9,...
... Customers who elect optional EACS will keep the same phone number, while those who drop EACS will have to change their phone number. Do you know which ...
... center, ... customers ... while those ... which ... Not yet. There is only one SBC non-EMS code in Allen (214-383). I would expect that SBC would use...
... This makes sense; since most of the other prefixes are EACS it looks like SBC is expecting most subscribers to keep it. There is a similar petition for the...
The 2d-half 2004 (dated October 2004) "NRUF" report from NANPA indicating area code exhaust projections, as well as the 2d-half-2004 (also dated October 2004)...
The following does NOT refer to "per-call" or "per-minute" charges on local calls or on certain local calling plans, but rather on "where" certain rural...
It was ten years ago this month, in January 1995, that the "new" style area codes first took effect - i.e., the first use of area codes that had digits OTHER...
... For general interest, I picked up my phone and started dialing a few of these. To my surprise, 311 (on my home office Sprint Canada line) gives an ANAC...
... Use of N11 codes for various test functions, such as ANAC-in or ANAC-out, or ringback (revertive calling), or testboard, etc. was never a standard or...
... Other than 411 and 911, there seems to be quite a variance from area to area. In the Washington D.C. area, 811 reads back the office code and line number,...
... This is true today. Any wireless phone should be able to call 911 even if de-activated and in the case of GSM phones does not even require that a SIM card...
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 05:23:11 -0800, Joseph Singer wrote... ... There's quite a bit of variation among wireless carriers when it comes to what is sent as ANI --...
I checked BellSouth's "Carrier Notifications" for 2005, and see that there is to be FURTHER EAS (local/free) calling in Louisiana, and this is also inter-LATA...
... I forgot to paste in the URL: www.interconnection.bellsouth.com/notifications/carrier/carrier_pdf/91085008.pdf ... Mark J. Cuccia mcuccia(at)tulane(dot)edu...