Steven Critchfield wrote:
Funny, my memory has been that 1 was always toll as it was possibly to dial a 7 digit number prefixed by a 1 and it was LD. Of course that may be that for the longest time I lived in areas where the entire state could be a single area code without risk of running out of numbers. At that point you only dialed the 10 digit number if you dialed out of state.
That is absolutely correct... Back when Arizona was "small" (and had only one NPA), we had 1+ dialing for both 7-digit and 10-digit numbers. Even when we got our second NPA, we still 1+ for 7-digit numbers in the Phoenix area for a while. Finally, Phoenix got two more NPAs, and became a "free calling area", so we no longer have 1+ 7-digits in the Phoenix area, but it still exists in the rest of the state.
Coupled with the fact that if you _do_ dial 1+ before a number that does not need it you get reorder tone followed by "It is not necessary to dial 1 before this number", it's pretty obvious that at least in USWest/Qwest territory 1+ means _exactly_ that the caller is trying to make a toll call (although the charges may be reversed in the case of an 800/888/877/866 call, it's still a toll call).
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