On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:16:16 -0400, Tony wrote:
Jon Danniken wrote:
Tony wrote:
Jon Danniken wrote:
aemeijers wrote:
And even if the TT pad is disabled, you can still dial by using the
hook lever as a telegraph key....
Used to be able to get the Operator that way, at least. Now you
can't even get the Operator by hitting '0'.

And they call it progress.

Jon
Here is what gets me. It's hard to keep up with what area codes need
to be dialed (ok, toned). If I get a recording telling me not to use
the area code, they could have just as easily made it ring through
either way!

Beginning this year they made us add the area code for a *local* call!
Dialing my neighbor across the street I now have to punch in 10 digits.

*******s.

Jon

It was like that up in Philadelphia PA NW sub, suburbs for at least 10
years. I liked that better than here in east TN. Here sometimes you
dial a 1 then the area code, and other calls you can not dial the one
before the area code or you get a recording. If it was all the same
that would be great. Who knows, how low until they add another digit to
phone numbers?

I love it when you dial a 1 before a "local area code" (like 602 from
480) and are basically told "**** you, try again and forget the 1, you
should know what area codes we aren't handing off to your long
distance carrier..."

Those days are gone for me. I put pbxinaflash onto a retired p4
computer and now I pay $5/mo for the house phone plus about a
penny/minute for outgoing calls. I can have multiple simultanious
calls and it screens out all incoming autodialed calls by requiring
human inteligence (press "5" to complete an incoming call). The
latter reason was the primary reason for the setup. I'm to lazy to
do anything much fancier than the default setup but some added perks
include call logs, the ability to record everything, and messages
forwarded to me as emails that I can pick up on my smart cellphone.

BTW: I can set up any dialing rules I want. Press a 7 or 10 digit
number with or without a 1 and it just dials it. All circuits busy
with one carrier? It'll use a fallback.