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Floating Point Unit - Stanley settled back into the couch, and Linc Madison said to him: on one of my pet peeves. The FCC has recommended that all states and all telcos *permit* *optional* 1+10D on any call within the NANP,Citation, *please*? ever to block 1+10D. Why does anyone need to be protected from accidentally making a free local call??The answer *I* got was that old switches weren't smart enough tonotice it, and would route and rate as a toll call. Once upon a time, in some places, dialing the 1+ would automatically seize a toll trunk and generate a toll billing record, so you did actually need to block 1+ on local calls to protect the consumer from being charged for a call that should be free. However, in the 21st century, the switches can figure out whether a call is local or toll and both route and bill it accordingly.Apparently, not all of them. I'd blame the G-5, if I thought I couldget away with it ... In any case, if the INC has its way, no one will ever dial 1+ at all.Well, that's bad, too. In California, though, you can't have 7D and 10D coexisting in the same area, due to numbering conflicts. For example, there is a 408-925-xxxx prefix not far from NPA 925. In fact, 408-925 is even a local call to and from one or two rate centers in 925. Los Angeles is a far bigger mess, with prefixes like 562-310 and 310-323 dotted all over the place.Yeah. And some moron provisioned 813-727 and 727-813. Idiot.Stanley settled back into the couch, and Jeff Sutter said to him: Linc Madison wrote in message news:: In article , Jeff Sutter wrote: It's not rubbish. It's a fact. Seven-digit dialing in an overlay is ILLEGAL under U.S. federal law. Period. GET USED TO IT. Nice try. Just because there is a bad law, and just because there are arrogant industry pundits who promote abuse of that law, doesn't mean that the good people of this state will "get used to it.". The law can be ignored, changed, or undone, just as the rush to split/overlay was squelched.And, Jeff, just because an engineering neccessity is uncomfortable forend users doesn't mean you can ignore it. Necessity means*necessity*.Cheers,Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.comMember of the Technical Staff BaylinkThe Suncoast Freenet The Things I ThinkTampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274God, unlike Anya, is fond of bunnies. -- Chelsea Christenson
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