[VoiceOps] Three Digit Numbers

[Ryan Delgrosso]

Historically this has been on the carrier to perform the necessary 
translation and route to the appropriate local dig-alert number, just as 
the carrier redirects 611 to their own support desk. This was also 
easier when a switch only had one digalert line to worry about.

Once upon a time I had an exhaustive list of routing numbers in my 
nation-wide translations table.


On 3/24/2020 8:18 AM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
> We're in the US, and yes 811 is the underground utility line, but I 
> don't think any of our carriers will pass it.  I don't recall the 
> details on who does what, but carriers like Intelliquent, Bandwidth, 
> and thinQ all do 911 testing on 711/811.
>
> Yeah, I just tried 811 to Intelliquent and it read back my phone number.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:14 AM Mike Hammett <voiceops at ics-il.net 
> <mailto:voiceops at ics-il.net>> wrote:
>
>     What country is this? I believe 811 is supposed to be a USA-wide
>     number to call for locating utilities for digging projects.
>
>
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>     Mike Hammett
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>     *From: *"Carlos Alvarez" <caalvarez at gmail.com
>     <mailto:caalvarez at gmail.com>>
>     *To: *voiceops at voiceops.org <mailto:voiceops at voiceops.org>
>     *Sent: *Tuesday, March 24, 2020 10:10:37 AM
>     *Subject: *Re: [VoiceOps] Three Digit Numbers
>
>     We don't handle any others in a traditional way.  Well, 611 is
>     actually in place, to our support line, but it has never once been
>     used. 811 and 711 are used for 911 testing without a real 911
>     call, as carriers mostly use those for automated systems that
>     return your 911 info.
>
>     On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 7:55 AM Mike Hammett <voiceops at ics-il.net
>     <mailto:voiceops at ics-il.net>> wrote:
>
>         What three digit numbers are commonly in use and how are
>         people routing them?
>
>         Obviously there's 911 and that has a whole routing ecosystem.
>         What about 811? 311? X11?
>
>
>         What other special numbers are people handling?
>
>
>
>         -----
>         Mike Hammett
>         Intelligent Computing Solutions
>         http://www.ics-il.com
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>         Midwest Internet Exchange
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