"959 Exchange of Mystery Scan Results"

                          compiled by: TestSet Johnny

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::Abbreviations::

 These are the rather cryptic abbreviations & terms I've been using in my own
 notes for many years now.  Feel free to learn them, use them, & love them.

  ACB - All Circuits Busy (recording)
   AM - Answering Machine
 ANAC - Automatic Number Announcement Circuit
 ATMS - Automated Trunk Maintenance/Measurement System (how she works is beyond me)
  CBC - Cannot Be Completed (recording)
  CFT - Checked For Trouble (recording)
   CS - Customer Service/Support
  DGT - Didn't Go Through (recording)
  DHC - Due to Heavy Calling (recording)
  DIS - DISconnected (recording)
  HBC - Has Been Changed (recording)
   LD - Long Distance (like I needed to tell you)
  MBX - MailBoX
  NIS - Not In Service (recording)
  NIV - Number InValid (recording)
  NPA - Numbering Plan Area (area code to everybody else)
  OGM - Out Going Message
   PA - Person Answered
  PBX - Private Branch eXchange
  REC - RECording
   RO - Ring Out (just keeps ringing)
  VMS - Voice Mail/Message System
  YCA - cannot be reached from Your Calling Area (recording)

::Glossary::

 dialtone - usually indicates a PBX or LD service
reflector - number that delays & resends received audio, ie: echo (exactly why, I don't know)
  reorder - fast busy signal
ring busy - number that's always busy
    suped - toll call
     tone - so called "milliwatt tone" or "loop tone" (various durations)
  unsuped - free call (most intercept recordings are unsuped)

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::Notes from TestSet Johnny::

A solid overview of the 959 "test" exchange is covered quite well in the
classic text file: "The AT&T 959 Exchange", which can be found in the
Telephony Text Files section of my WebPage.

In my experience (albeit limited) most 959 numbers are the same or similar
in various NPA's, but there are occasional differences.  I was originally
going to just compile all of the data below into a "general" 959 listing,
but thought better of it at the last moment.  About the only real thing you
need to keep in mind with these is that you must dial into a 959 exchange
via AT&T.

Anybody out there who has scanned any 959 exchanges and would care to
share the results, please feel free to contact me (see above or below for
address).  Speaking of which; thanks goes to MMX for the recent info.

::Notes from MMX::

By the way - I found another use for non working 959 numbers.  When you dial
an invalid 959 number (as in - one that doesn't work), it'll give you it's
tandem ID number.  For example - the White Plains, NY AT&T Domestic and
International 4E (an immensely large building with no windows, a full time
security guard and a dumpster inside a double fence with barbed wire) will
say 1-0-4-T after every recording that only made it to that point.  So - for
all future scanning, if it doesn't say 1-0-4-T, you know that it's getting
beyond your local toll office or being handed over to another network.

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::Numbers::

(xxx)959-1000 gives Tone except for: (215)959-1000
                                     (307)959-1000
                                     (360)959-1000
                                     (610)959-1000
                                     (814)959-1000

(201)959

1550-1559 ATMS
1580-1589 Reflectors
1590-1599 ATMS

(212)959

0010 CBC
0096 CBC
1000 Tone
1001 Tone
1111 CBC
1500 Tone
1510 RO
1515 RO
1525 Tone
1530 DGT
1535 DGT
1540 ATMS
1550 ATMS
1560 CBC
1570 CBC
1580 Reflector
1590 ATMS
2000 CBC
2222 CBC
2500 CBC
2600 CBC
3000 CBC
3333 CBC
4000 CBC
4444 CBC
5555 DGT
5600 DGT
5667 DGT
5700 DGT
6000 CBC
6199 CBC
6666 CBC
7211 CBC
7777 CBC
7800 CBC
8277 CBC
8378 CBC
8888 CBC
9000 CBC

(213)959

1000 Tone
1100 Silence

(219)959

1000 Tone (no repeat)
1510 RO
1515 DGT
1525 Tone (repeats)
1580 Reflector
5463 DGT
6000 CBC
6300 CBC
8378 CBC

(312)959

1000 Tone (no repeat)
1100 Tone (constant)
1200 CBC
1300 CBC
1400 CBC
1500 Tone (no repeat)
1550 ATMS
1600 CBC
8378 CBC

(402)959

0000 CBC
0045 CBC
0099 CBC
0100 CBC
0200 CBC
0300 CBC
0350 CBC
0400 CBC
0500 CBC
0600 CBC
0700 CBC
0800 CBC
0900 CBC
0999 CBC
100x Tone
1010 RO
1011 RO
1077 CBC
1078 CBC
1079 CBC
1100 Silence
1180 CBC
1200 CBC
1230 CBC
1299 CBC
1300 CBC
1350 CBC
1400 CBC
150x Tone
1510 RO
1511 RO
1512 RO
1513 RO
1514 DGT (used to be "rings then silence")
1515 DGT
1516 RO
1517 RO
1518 RO
1519 RO
1520 Tone (repeats)
1525 Tone (repeats)
1530 DGT
1540 DGT
1544 DGT
155x ATMS
1560 CBC
1570 CBC
158x Reflector
159x ATMS
1600 CBC
1650 CBC
1700 CBC
1800 CBC
1900 CBC
1950 CBC
1983 CBC
2000 ACB
2050 CBC
2500 CBC
2998 CBC
3000 CBC
3311 CBC
3500 CBC
4000 CBC
4411 CBC
4499 CBC
4500 CBC
4688 CBC
4922 CBC
5000 DGT
5381 DGT
5463 DGT
5500 DGT
6000 CBC
7000 CBC
7710 CBC
7765 CBC
777x Ring Busy
7780 CBC
7790 CBC
8000 CBC
8123 CBC
8378 CBC
8500 CBC
8770 CBC
8899 CBC
8950 CBC
9000 CBC
9079 CBC
9100 CBC
9200 CBC
9500 CBC
9700 RO
9711 CBC
9750 CBC
9999 CBC

(702)959

0079 CBC
0400 CBC
0550 CBC
1000 Tone
1100 Silence
1121 CBC
1499 CBC
150x Tone
1580 Reflector
1947 CBC
1983 CBC
2000 CBC
2001 CBC
2944 CBC
3000 CBC
3210 CBC
4455 CBC
5000 DGT
5381 DGT
6655 CBC
7000 CBC
8378 CBC
9595 CBC

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