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Originally posted by TheFLY
Jesus Dialer dials to the congo -- but we have special software that will automatically switch the customer off of MCI -- we all know it's possible to have two long distance companies at the same time -- this is possible through a special hardware generated tone (DSL and Hayes compatible modems) -- we have named it "the flapjack tone" after its creator -- btw different than crackerjack tone -- patent pending on this new technology... our LD service is called MC1 and our bill looks identical to MCI's bills -- only we send out our bills before MCI does ;) We have %91 success rate in Alpha testing...
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All joking aside, as I stated earlier it *IS* possible to temporarily use a different long distance provider when billing for an international call.
That's what 1010 carrier kick codes are. Most dialers in the early days used 1010288 which ment even if you had MCI as your LD company, you would be billed by AT&T
So the way the dialer would dial would be the following:
1010288 011 239 5555
1010288 would lock the biller (long distance company) to AT&T. 011 would state that you're about to make an international call. 239 states the country number as Sao Tome. And 5555 is the actual number which I just made up.
I know you were just kidding there, but I wanted to make it clear to people.
With dialers that use 900 numbers for their U.S. route, no kick code is needed because the biller information is set on the actual 900 number.