Hi Ed

 EV> Howdy! Mike,

 EV> The instructions that came with my latest Telephone Bill said that the
 EV> 1 wouldn't have to be dialed for numbers that are on local Exchanges in
 EV> my Area Code, but for numbers in my same Area Code but in another part
 EV> of the State the 1 would have to be dialed.

 EV> I'm not sure, but "I think" right now, before the BIG
CHANGE begins,
 EV> if I want to call another number that isn't a local call I can dial
 EV> 1 then the 3 digits for the Exchange and the last 4 digits.

 EV> I haven't called anyone down in the next County where I use to live for
 EV> a very long time so I could be mistaken.
 EV> I might have to dial the Area Code after I dial the 1.
 EV> I don't know, can't remember.
 EV> 73

I've done some research on MajicJack reference this.  As best I can tell so
far, when you are entering a 'new' number to call into the MajicJack 'unit'
it will NOT accept any combination of digits dialed at all until it can
somehow 'identify' that what you are dialing matches SOMETHING in it's
library of possible numbers.  This is just a reference digit description
I'll cite.  Not at all a real number.  If there is NO actual identity for
the numbers you strike in such as 12345 for, say the number 123 anything,
it simply does not even register that combination!  Say that there is no
known combination it it for 123 .. BUT, beginning with 345 it does 'know' a
hit for say 345, it will actually show up that there is no digit 1 or 2,
but starting with 345 until it doesn't know something else it will accept
what you are entering!  Such as 3, 4567 or shows, say, 345 678, whatever if
there may be an area code 345, or a counrty code 3, 456 plus whatever
number combo it knows until it runs out of 'I understand this dial deal' !!

For example, if your dialed number starts being understood as 4567889 and
you stop there, assuming that a 'valid' number might exist for that tail
number in a valid area code, it will announce, 'You must dial the area code
to complete this call'.  Might have been 713-456-7889 for example, or I
guess,perhaps a 214-456-7889 number.  Dunno exactly.  However, since you DO
NOT AT ALL dial a 1- number to start a call, it seems that any such number
starting with a 1- combo is considered an unacceptable whatever.

So far, at this point, I have no way to figure out a way to accidentally
get just a seven digit number to complete at all in MajicJack that would
thus falsely whop a local number for a 'misdialed' LD call from a local
area code that improperly hit an an area code number for a 'valid' false
call to a local exchange number that was dialed that way without a 'needed'
1- prefix to force it to that LD area code instead of wrongly whopping the
local exchage that hits a wrong number, even though you entered all 10
digits for a local number that used wrongly only the first ten digits to
whop it.

Hmmmmmmm.

Mike Luther as N117C at 1:117/100

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