TELECOM Digest Tue, 17 May 94 14:51:00 CDT Volume 14 : Issue 231 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Palestinian Country Code (Bob Goudreau) Need New NPA Listings (Tony Pelliccio) Lexus Cellular Phones (Eric A. Litman) New (Lame) Directory Assistance From GTE Mobilnet (Bay Area) (Henry Mensch) "Private" Message on CID Box (mwolf@marcie.wellesley.edu) What is a Synchronous Modem Eliminator? (Victoria Matho) Information Needed on Telecommunications in England (Andy Kumeda) Samples From Telecomworldwire - Part 2 (Darren Ingram) ANI Numbers For (408) Area Wanted (Neil R. Henry) Re: Government Regulates Number of Modem Redial Atttempts? (Mark E. Daniel) Telephone Number Syntax Question (Ken Shirriff) Re: NPA Optional in 818 - it Works! (Anton Sherwood) Re: 'NNX' Area Codes? I Think 'NXX' is More Appropriate (Anton Sherwood) Re: Trying to Convert WAV Files to 3-Bit ADPCM (Stu Whitmore) Texas Gets Caller ID (David Winters) Information Wanted on ITC Autonet (Chris Cariffe) Re: What Network Equipment is Needed to Setup Access Point (John R. Levine) Re: NPA Readiness For 1995 (Alan Leon Varney) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and GEnie. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. Subscriptions are available at no charge to qualified organizations and individual readers. Write and tell us how you qualify: * telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu * The Digest is edited, published and compilation-copyrighted by Patrick Townson of Skokie, Illinois USA. 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Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 12:17:58 -0400 From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Subject: Palestinian Country Code According to a recent issue of the {Economist}, the recent agreement between Israel and the PLO in setting up a "Palestinian Authority" in the Gaza strip and the Jericho area includes provisions that allow the Authority to issue postage stamps and to use a separate telephone country code. Does anyone know if the ITU has issued the new code yet, and if so, what number was used? The country code list for Zone 9 (which includes Israel, Jordan, etc.) in the Telecom archives shows that 970, 978 and 979 are currently vacant, so I suspect that it will be one of those. Also, are any details yet available about the internal numbering space that will exist within the new country code (i.e., what area codes and local numbers will look like)? I note that Jericho, along with Jerusalem and lots of the West Bank, is currently part of area code 2 in Israel; will Jericho lines still be dialable as Israeli numbers too? (I can't find any listing for Gaza in the current Israel listing.) Bob Goudreau Data General Corporation goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com 62 Alexander Drive +1 919 248 6231 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA ------------------------------ From: Anthony_Pelliccio@brown.edu (Tony Pelliccio) Subject: Need New NPA Listings Date: 17 May 1994 18:15:25 GMT Organization: Brown University ADIR In order to keep our database accurate, I'm wondering where I can FTP listings of recently changed and upcoming changes to the U.S. dialing plan. ie, area-code splits. I could have sworn this information was available via ftp on bellcore.com but cannot find it there. Anyone know where it might be buried? Tony Pelliccio, KD1NR Anthony_Pelliccio@brown.edu, Tel. (401) 863-1880 Fax. (401) 863-2269 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: You might check out the Telecom Archives also, in the /areacodes sub-directory. Anonymous ftp lcs.mit.edu. PAT] ------------------------------ From: elitman@proxima.com (Eric A. Litman) Subject: Lexus Cellular Phones Date: 17 May 1994 09:02:30 -0500 Organization: Proxima, Inc. I was recently going over the phone options for the Lexus GS300, and noticed that the phone system Lexus offers is a Motorola -- basically a souped-up AlphaTac. When installed by a Lexus dealer, the phone integrates with the stereo system and the AC to mute the stereo, lower the AC, and allow conversations to be held over the car's audio system. My question is, can my Motorola DPC550 handheld be integrated into this system, or are there special "hooks" in the Lexus-specific phone? Eric Litman Proxima, Inc. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 94 09:12:00 PDT From: Henry Mensch Subject: New (Lame) Directory Assistance From GTE Mobilnet (Bay Area) So, I'm at a Golden Gate Transit bus stop on Harrison and Third street trying to go meet a friend in Santa Rosa ... there's no schedule posted, and no phone number on the shelter. I extract my handy dandy cellfone and dial '411' and ask for the number for Golden Gate Transit. The lady who answers the phone answers with "GTE can I help you?". Apparently she couldn't because she could not find a number for Golden Gate Transit in SF ... then I remember this bill insert which gave information on this "new service." I asked if I could get connected to the real information operator, and I was informed that *6543 would work. *6543 did indeed work, and I got the number on the first try. Moral of the story: to use GTE's new gimmicky directory assistance dial 411 or 555 1212 ... to get the real stuff dial *6543. Your mileage may vary, especially outside the Bay Area. henry mensch / oracle corporation / "on the internet, nobody knows you're a bear." --tovah hollander pob 14592; sf, ca 94114-0592; usa / NBCS: B3/4 w+ f+ g(-) k+ s+ m p(+) [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Henry, a question and a comment: exactly what does this *6543 hook get you into? You said 'new, gimmicky directory assistance' which leads me to wonder, did not GTE offer directory assist- ance like any other telco until recently, i.e. 'new'?. Is the cellular division of the company offering a new service and intercepting calls to 411 or 555-1212 which formerly had gone to a full directory bureau and providing some limited sub-set of the directory? My comment is that as a fine example of how telco service has gotten worse since divestiture, there was a time, until maybe a decade ago when the information operators *memorized* the 'top twenty' inquiries and did not have to look for them at all. The airline and bus schedule information numbers, the utility companies, city hall; all those were on the tip of her tongue. So if you asked (for example) for the number for bus schedules she would *instantly* reply, "eight three six seven thousand". The next twenty or thirty 'often requested numbers' after the 'top twenty' were on an index card at her position that she could glance at. It was only after you got beyond that group of a few dozen numbers people were always asking about that she had to actually use the directory. Generally all the oper- ators -- not just the directory operators -- knew the 'top twenty' by heart so a person who dialed the zero operator for assistance could also be immediatly connected. That's how it *used* to be. PAT] ------------------------------ From: mwolf@marcie.wellesley.edu (MUR) Subject: "Private" Message on CID Box Organization: WELLESLEY COLLEGE Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 14:28:37 GMT Some of the calls I receive from areas that don't yet have Caller ID service are picked up by my CID boxes as "private" (blocked) rather that "out-of-area", even though the calling parties haven't blocked thier numbers. This will be a problem when I install a blocked call rejecting CID box. Have others found this to happen? Solutions? ------------------------------ From: vmatho@mason1.gmu.edu (Victoria Matho) Subject: What is a Synchronous Modem Eliminator? Date: 17 May 1994 12:35:19 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Does anyone know what an SME or synchronous modem eliminator does?? Thanks in Advance, Victoria ------------------------------ From: kumeda@csulb.edu (ANDY KUMEDA) Subject: Information Needed on Telecommunications in England Date: 17 May 1994 14:52:20 GMT Organization: Cal State Long Beach I am posting this for a colleague of mine who is doing research on 'Telecommunication in England'. He would like some info on the following topics: o recent trends in their communication industry o telecom carriers' market size o cellular phones o communications and broadcast satellites o 'Super Highways' o or any other helpful info, or where to find them Thanks a lot, and please respond to me via e-mail. I will summarize to those that are interested. Andy Kumeda ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 94 16:36 BST From: Darren Ingram Subject: Samples From Telecomworldwire - Part 2 Reply-To: satnews@cix.compulink.co.uk We would like to offer TELECOM Digest readers a special price on subscription. The UK price is gbp700 per year for fax. We would be pleased to offer **ALL** businesses a single-copy price of the same (payable in Sterling or credit card) for delivery to an electronic mail box connected to the Internet. The companies would have to sign a piece of paper (yes, old fashioned!) saying they would not redistribute the material and basically subject the copyrighted works in the same way as a printed publication. Site archive licences are available. For genuine bona-fida non-commercial users a very generous (in excess of 50 percent) discount would be offered upon signing a similar warranty which also says that the information would be for their sole use only and for non-commercial purposes). Also we have another product called Satnews, which I will forward similar offer details on later next week. Here are some stories from a recent issue: -US COMPANIES TAKE STAKE IN SOUTH KOREAN MOBILE TELCO TWW-12 May 1994-US COMPANIES TAKE STAKE IN SOUTH KOREAN MOBILE TELCO TELECOMWORLDWIRE--(C) 1994 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA- Four US companies have been selected to take a shareholding in South Korea's second mobile phone system -- now called Shinsegi Mobile Telecom Co Ltd. Pacific Telesis (PacTel) is to take a 10 percent holding, along with Southwestern Bell (7%), GTE Corp (4%) and Qualcomm Inc (1.2%). The combined foreign stake is slightly more than the 20.2 percent planned by the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), who co-ordinated the complex arrangements of appointing national and international shareholders. The key South Korean shareholders are the Pohang Iron and Steel Co (POSCO) with a 15 percent stake, Kolon Industries Co Ltd with 14 percent and around 240 local firms making up the remainder of minority shareholders. The formation of the second mobile phone consortium closes a very controversial -- and newsworthy -- chain of events which saw the Sunkyong Group chosen to lead the contract, but this was abandoned after charges of nepotism were made because the son of Sunkyong's chairman is married to the daughter of ex-President Roh Tae-woo. Sunkyong made a second bid, but later withdrew it after winning a 23 percent share of Korea Mobile Telecom Corp, operators of the existing mobile network. -ITOCHU BUILDS HIGH-SPEED CHINESE DIGITAL NETWORK TWW-12 May 1994-ITOCHU BUILDS HIGH-SPEED CHINESE DIGITAL NETWORK TELECOMWORLDWIRE--(C) 1994 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD BEIJING, CHINA- Itochu Corp has installed a 64kbit/s digital leased line between Beijing and China for JAL Airlines Co, making it the fist Japanese company to build a high-speed network in the country. There are plans to extend the link to cover Talien and Guangzhou. -TRIAL OF CANADIAN INFO SUPERHIGHWAY PLANNED TWW-12 May 1994-TRIAL OF CANADIAN INFO SUPERHIGHWAY PLANNED TELECOMWORLDWIRE--(C) 1994 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD TORONTO, CANADA- A trial of an information superhighway in Canada is set to begin which will test tele-medicine applications and distance medical education. The so-called Experimental Test Bed Network will be sponsored by the non-profit-making Canarie Group Inc, a group of over 100 private and public organisations created to develop the country's next generation of telecommunication networks. Network services worth C$7.5 million are to be provided by the Stentor alliance and Unitel Communications Inc. Initially regional networks in Ottawa and British Columbia are to be formed before national networks are formed by the year-end. -CLI, INTEL ALIGN FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TWW-12 May 1994-CLI, INTEL ALIGN FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TELECOMWORLDWIRE--(C) 1994 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD NEW YORK, USA- Intel Corp. has formed an agreement with Compression Labs Inc to jointly develop advanced videoconferencing products. The companies first broke news of their alliance in January but this is the first definitive step of intent. Compression Labs' products will support Intel's PC desktop videoconferencing and dataconferencing (workgroup) products. Intel is providing some development funding and has purchased US$2 million of recently-issued Compression Labs stock. -TENDERS FOR BRAZILIAN CELLULAR TO BE RELEASED TWW-12 May 1994-BRIEF TRANSMISSION:TENDERS FOR BRAZILIAN CELLULAR TO BE RELEASED TELECOMWORLDWIRE--(C) 1994 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RIO DE JANERIO, BRAZIL- Tenders for US$110 worth of orders to expand a cellular communications network are shortly to be published by Telerj, a business unit of Telebras. Companies will be invited to bid for a contract worth about $30 million to provide 22,000 new cellular lines in Rio de Janerio state and in June the company will put out to tender 60,000 lines in the city of Rio de Janeiro, a deal worth around $80 million. Observers say that NEC is tipped to win the tender as in 1989 it was awarded contracts now worth US$200 million to supply 120,000 cellular circuits. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Part one of this sampling appeared in a prior issue of the Digest today. PAT] ------------------------------ From: nhenry@netcom.com (Neil R. Henry) Subject: ANI Numbers Wanted For (408) Area Organization: Remote Access Solutions, Los Gatos, CA USA Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 05:45:13 GMT Can anyone provide private or telco ANI read-off telephones for San Jose CA (408) area. Many thanks, Neil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 03:05:52 EST From: mark@legend.akron.oh.us (Mark E Daniel) Subject: Re: Government Regulates Number of Modem Redial Atttempts? In article is written: > Illinois Bell territory, we use *60 to add/delete numbers to our > Call Screening directory. If thus screened, the calling party gets an > intercept message saying the called party 'is not receiving calls at > this time.' Do you have a limit on the number telephone IDs :) that you are allow to block calls from? Or do they charge you on a byte-used deal? :) Like I always say, I'd rather have a list of allowed numbers and forget the rest. :) > jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) writes: >> Or the modem should detect voice and put out a AT-command like >> response ("VOICE") which would cause the comm software to cease, just >> like a "NO ANSWER" timeout. Shouldn't be hard for the DSP to detect >> voice. Do common modems provide any such voice indication? Sure. There are indeed modems that will detect VOICE and do indeed respond with VOICE. Check in c.d.modems to be sure, but I believe that it's mostly the highend Hayes' and I believe the US Robotics Dual Standards which provide this feature. I have a ZyXEL with old ROMs that as of my ROM revision will not detect VOICE, but again I believe this might have been added to the latest ROMs. :) Mark E Daniel (Loving SysOp of The Legend BBS) Inet: mark@legend.akron.oh.us medaniel@delphi.com (Direct INet) [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There is a limit of ten numbers from which calls can be rejected. A new entry to the list at that point cause the oldest entry to drop off. PAT] ------------------------------ From: shirriff@allspice.Berkeley.EDU (Ken Shirriff) Subject: Telephone Number Syntax Question Date: 17 May 1994 06:07:12 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley It used to be that phone numbers had the syntax 123-456-7890 or (123) 456-7890. Now I see lots of numbers of the form +1 123 456-7890. When did this new trend occur, and what does the "+" signify? Ken Shirriff shirriff@cs.Berkeley.EDU [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The +1 indicates the country code for the USA and Canada along with countries using the 809 area code. By coincidence '1' is also the access code we dial when placing a long distance number, but in this instance it represents the country code. PAT] ------------------------------ From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood) Subject: Re: NPA Optional in 818 - it Works! Organization: Crackpots for a Better Tomorrow Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 19:53:42 GMT In article justfred@netcom.com (Fred Heald) writes: > I tend to always dial the entire number (1-NPA-NXX-XXXX) first, > and get the ridiculous message "We are sorry, it is not necesary to > dial one and the area code for this call". Well, this morning (in > fact, calling Netcom) I accidentally dialed the 1-818, and the call > went through! I just tried it in 415. Hooray! Anton Sherwood *\\* +1 415 267 0685 *\\* DASher@netcom.com ------------------------------ From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood) Subject: Re: 'NNX' Area Codes? I Think 'NXX' is More Appropriate Organization: Crackpots for a Better Tomorrow Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 00:16:50 GMT Speaking of NNX and NXX, is there a letter for the set {0,1}? I haven't seen one used. If (strangely) there isn't a convention, how about B for Bit, so old-style area codes are NBX? Anton Sherwood *\\* +1 415 267 0685 *\\* DASher@netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 09:58:45 -0700 From: whitmore@tahoma.cwu.edu (Rattlesnake Stu) Subject: Re: Trying to Convert WAV Files to 3-Bit ADPCM Organization: Central Washington University On Fri, 13 May 1994 16:19:15 -0500, Richard De A'Morelli scribbled: > I have been looking for quite some time for a shareware package that > would convert WAV files to 3-bit ADPCM, which would be suitable not > only for Zyxel modems, but other telecom specific voice cards as well, > such as Dialogic, Pika AVA-4, New Voice, etc. I am especially > interested in a utility for the Pika AVA-4 card -- the only one I know > of is a commercial package priced at about $500, which is far more for > a voice editor package than I can afford. Any help would be most apprec- > iated. I finally got a "solution" to this, which I've been wanting as well. (Note that this is not a perfect solution, but you can make it work.) Use the shareware program Blaster Master to load the .WAV, then save it as a .VOC file. Use the VCNVT program (see the ZyXEL FTP site, I think, or their BBS) to convert the .VOC to the 3-bit ADPCM format. This worked for me. (Blaster Master is a neat program, you can combine and otherwise manipulate files to come up with really outrageous nonsense, as long as you have a good supply of Monty Python and Star Trek .WAV files ... . You can FTP it from the SimTel archives, if I remember correctly, but I don't recall what directory in the SimTel/msdos tree.) Stuart Whitmore FAX: (509) 925-3893 Data: Same as FAX whitmore@tahoma.cwu.edu 71221.1737@compuserve.com ------------------------------ From: davidw@bga.com (David Winters) Subject: Texas Gets Caller ID Date: 17 May 1994 03:37:05 GMT Organization: Real/Time Communications - Bob Gustwick and Associates Texas finally has Caller ID. It has been available in Austin, the first area, for a couple of months. It was held up for reasons laid out in the previous postings and the state wire-tap law. A card came in my Southwestern Bell phone bill asking if I wanted per-line blocking. It was stated that I needed a compelling reason to have per-line blocking but did not have to state that reason to the phone company. In reality this means anyone can have per-line blocking. I read in the local newspaper that only 2% of local residents signed up for per-line blocking. I have never received a call yet by a blocked number. A service which was mandated in Texas was called Anonymous call rejection. This only costs 50 cents extra. Anonymous call rejection enables someone with or without Caller ID to block all blocked calls. In other words if someone calls me and has pressed *67 or has per-line blocking, they will receive a recording indicating that I am not accepting blocked calls provided that I have the ACR service turned on. My only problem so far has been the number of "out of area" calls I receive from cellular and out of town numbers. My understanding is that within the next year, long distance carriers will be required to send the Caller ID signal. Caller ID is supposed to be available in Houston (713) and San Antonio (210) later this year. It will be available in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area (214/817) early next year. David Winters | davidw@bga.com [preferred e-mail address] Austin, Texas | CIS: 73510.2404@compuserve.com | AOL: davidwi@aol.com ------------------------------ From: chrys@netcom.com (Chris Cariffe) Subject: Information Wanted on ITC Autonet Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 01:11:57 GMT Does anyone have any info on ITC Autonet? I have just interviewed with this company and am interested to find out what the public has to say. They seem to be a pretty good company. I found that all of the employees I've talked to really like them. They take a great deal of concern in the customer, which is a BIG plus in this industry. Any info would be appreciated. Chris chriss@well.com chrys@netcom Denver, Colorado 303-321-6650 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 94 18:07 EDT From: johnl@iecc.com (John R Levine) Subject: Re: What Network Equipment is Needed to Set up Access Point Organization: I.E.C.C., Cambridge, Mass. > It sounds like you're about to get into the wonderful world of Unix. > The addresses we have on the internet don't seem to want to let people > telnet into our site. This is because we have a network with only DOS > machines on it. I have heard that we are going to have to get a Unix > box and a fully qualified domain name if we want to be fully on the 'net. I have a network here with two Windows machines, a Unix machine, and a couple of routers. They're all really on the Internet -- ping tom.iecc.com if you want to say hi to a Windows laptop on the net. Ping xuxa.iecc.com and astrud.iecc.com to say hi to two antique 286 boxes routing packets through a wireless Ethernet, my link to the outside. You probably want to provide services such as FTP to outside users. You can in fact do this with Windows machines (you can FTP to tom as well) although Windows is not a terribly robust server platform. Windows server software exists for many popular services such as Gopher, finger, and WWW as well as for DNS, the system that manages Internet host names. If you want a robust server, you are indeed better off running Unix, which works very nicely on a 386 or better PC. It's cheaper than DOS, too. For an introduction to setting up an Internet node, I'd suggest "The Internet Connection" by John Quarterman and Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-54237-4. For a general introduction to the Internet, I shamelessly recommend "The Internet for Dummies", IDG, 1-56884-024-1, which now seems to be the overall best selling Internet book. I think it's one of the finest books ever written in the English language, but since I wrote it I may be biased. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, jlevine@delphi.com, 1037498@mcimail.com ------------------------------ From: Alan.Leon.Varney@att.com Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 08:30:45 +0500 Subject: Re: NPA Readiness for 1995 Organization: AT&T Network Systems In article Gregory P. Monti writes: > North America's Countdown to NPA Interchangeability in 1995 Greg, I've added a date to all the non-ready NPAs, indicating when Bellcore believes they WILL be ready (permissive dialing). In some cases, it is a date in the past ... (Mandatory dates before 5/1/94 are also indicated.) I've used JULY to indicate "7/1/94 permissive", since it is such a common date. Note that ALL of these NPAs have elected to use 1+10 for Toll calls (except CA 408, which says "no" for another reason). Al Varney NPA Stat Toll Ready Notes Prov calls for within 1/95? NPA dialed as 203 CT 1+7 no 2/28/94 permissive 314 MO 1+7 no JULY 316 KS 1+7 no JULY 318 LA 1+7 no 9/4/93 perm. 1+10 (4/2/94 mandatory) 405 OK 1+7 no JULY 408 CA 7 no inter-NPA calls are 10D, must change to 1+10D {Table indicates 1+10 Inter-NPA permitted as of 10/11/93, mandatory 10/10/94 -- same comment applies to 209, 619, 707, 805 & 916. So this should be "yes"????} 409 TX 1+7 no JULY 417 MO 1+7 no JULY 501 AR 1+7 no JULY 502 KY 1+7 no 9/4/93 perm. 1+10 (4/2/94 mandatory) 504 LA 1+7 no 9/4/93 perm. 1+10 (4/2/94 mandatory) 517 MI 1+7 no 5/1/94 permissive 606 KY 1+7 no 9/4/93 perm. 1+10 (4/2/94 mandatory) 616 MI 1+7 no 5/1/94 permissive 702 NV 1+7 no JULY 804 VA 1+7 no 5/18/94 permissive 806 TX 1+7 no JULY 808 HI 1+7 no 6/19/94 permissive 809 Caribbean 1+7 no {These have all elected to go with 1+10 Toll, with 1/9/94 as the MANDATORY date. So this should be "1+10 mostly" and "yes". The islands of St. Vincent and Turks & Caicos use "01+10D" for Toll, and 115+10D for operator calls. Turks & Caicos permit 5D local and Anguilla and Montserrat permit 4D local .... } 816 MO 1+7 no JULY 906 MI 1+7 no 2/1/94 permissive 907 AK 1+7 no {Table says the permissive date is NA ?? Mandatory 1+10 date is 1/1/95} 913 KS 1+7 no JULY 915 TX 1+7 no JULY 918 OK 1+7 no JULY ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V14 #231 ******************************