11/25/02 10:19:50 PM, Josh Koffman wrote: >Jim wrote: >> there are only 13 "Non-geographic NPA's in service" as of 11/22/2002 > >> 880 Paid Toll-Free Service >> 881 Paid Toll-Free Service >> 882 Paid Toll-Free Service > >Does this strike anyone else as funny? :) IIRC, that's to allow paid international calls to numbers that would be toll-free if called from within the NANPA. Remember that for large- or medium-volume customers, toll-free numbers usually terminate on incoming-only trunks rather than being mapped to ordinary subscriber loops that have ordinary numbers. Therefore, someone calling from, say, the UK, can be out of luck if they want to call a vendor that only publishes an 800/888/877/866 number. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body