On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 03:15:11PM -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Mine doesn't -- AT&T Wireless and Cingular GSM phones have 10D or 11D only, at least around here.
Leave it up to Cingular to be stupid. :P I've been a customer of Alltel, Northcoast PCS, Sprint PCS and now T-Mobile, and the old GTE Wireless dating back to '93. On none of those carriers have I ever been forced to dial 10D if I wasn't roaming, and if I was dialing a number in the same area code my cellphone number was in.
IOW, I'm pretty sure they're the only company doing that, though ICBW.
I hang out in telecom circles, and I have no datapoints suggesting that cellular carriers are requiring or moving to requiring 10D for local calling, though Stan Cline (roamer1) would be the guy to ask. This is, of course, OT of the OT thread about ISP dialing. I would observe that there's a fairly obvious mnemonic to 7D (the same area code as my own number), but Steve's already gonna yell at me for posting on this thread, so... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer +-Internetworking------+----------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me