On 10 Sep 1999, John R. Levine wrote:
It is my impression that the implementation of these numbers depend on a lot of complicated telco stuff, and you can't reliably expect them to work everywhere. Remember that the US has many long distance companies, and each toll-free number is individually routed to the carrier that handles it, meaning that someone has to do a database dip to route these calls to the appropriate carrier once they reach the US. It's not like normal numbers where every LD company can deliver any call.
Correct, this greatly depends on the international telco. Some countries have used 888 and other blocks for other uses so this greatly complicates matters. I was in Jamaica last month and had to used simplified 32 digit dialing to call a 800 number and that only worked some of the time. -- Check out the new Telecom tools site http://www.robotics.net/clec/
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