Portland Union Station Millennium - Tape Notes

00:00 - Dial tone interrupted by prompt to insert a credit card
00:20 - Dial 1-800-444-4444
00:45 - Dial a non-free call, get prompt to insert a credit card
01:20 - Prompts time out
01:30 - Dial 0 (which dials a toll-free number in the background)
01:40 - Get WiMacTel operator system
02:35 - Get WiMacTel operator to ask for rate quote
03:15 - Call would cost $25.23 for first minute and $1.84 per additional minute afterwards!
03:45 - Dial 101-0288-0, which gets outpulsed directly onto the connected POTS line
04:03 - Get AT&T operator system
04:24 - Ask AT&T operator for long-distance number
04:38 - "Higher rate may apply", operator connects
04:45 - Call fails to go through, get tandem intercept from 157T
05:12 - Dialing 101-0288 + a number fails and is blocked by the COCOT
05:30 - Dialing 00 also goes to WiMacTel
06:04 - Call the AT&T operator again
06:31 - Ask operator for the same number again
06:57 - Get same intercept, but this time from 027T
07:10 - Dial 101-0555-0
07:25 - Get busy signal
07:30 - Dial 101-0222-0
07:46 - Get MCI operator system and press '0' for operator
08:01 - Get directory assistance operator, just connects to readback of number by D.A. system.
09:03 - Dial 101-0432-0
09:21 - "We're sorry, your call cannot be completed as dialed. Please contact your long-distance provider." (male voice) 33013 (female voice)
09:51 - Dial 101-6963-0, it fails to go through, obviously
10:10 - Redial 101-0222-0
10:44 - Ask operator where I've reached, seem to keep getting directory assistance
11:07 - Redial 101-0222-0, and this time select option for directory assistance instead of operator assistance
11:30 - Get automated directory assistance platform
11:45 - Get directory assistance (for the third time)
12:13 - Redial 101-0288-0
12:39 - Ask AT&T operator for a different long-distance number
13:05 - Call connects successfully! So, for some reason, AT&T couldn't connect to the first number, from this phone
13:10 - Dial an ANAC, and the number read out, 855-419-7365, is different from the number of the phone itself.
15:05 - Place a 0+ call through the WiMacTel operator system
15:40 - Start waiting on hold for an operator
16:27 - Finally, a WiMacTel operator answers, and I ask for a rate quote
17:50 - Dial 711 and get Oregon Relay