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1-700-555-4141 used to tell you who was set up as your primary interexchange carrier. It might still if you're on a truly old-school land line.
by rachelbythebay 6y ago
1-700-555-4141 used to tell you who was set up as your primary interexchange carrier. It might still if you're on a truly old-school land line.
- jcrawfordor 6y agoThere's a slightly interesting history to this feature, which should still work on a conventional land line. It was mandated as a partial solution to a scam called "slamming," in which a disreputable long-distance carrier would inform a customer's local exchange carrier that they had 'requested' that their default long distance carrier be changed... without their knowledge. "Slamming" is not to be confused with "Cramming," another common telephone billing scam of the post-breakup period, because all of these got fun rhyming names.
- rachelbythebay 6y agoYup. PIC locks for the win. Also, it was neat to use the equal access codes to dial around and see what numbers mapped to what carriers, and what their "welcome to XYZ" recordings sounded like. Ah, being a kid and being bored.