Talk:Wide Area Telephone Service

Canada?

The sources appear to contradict on the question of which toll-free InWATS exchanges were assigned to Canada; the 2600 magazine piece has +1-800-NN7 while the AT&T routing guides have most of the 1-800-N61-, 1-800-N63-, 1-800-N65- and 1-800-N67- prefixes assigned to overlay the individual geographic Canadian area codes. Certainly 1-800-NN2 is entirely absent from interstate or interprovincial lists in the routing guide, so it being US intrastate is plausible. Odds are, the initial US interstate 800 exchanges were 800-N2X, 800-N3X, 800-N4X, 800-N5X with Canada 800-N6X, but as additional points were added (like Hawaii) or second/additional freephone exchanges were added to serve popular geographic area codes, the pattern was broken? K7L (talk) 04:35, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Civil Rights Movement?

In what way does an article about telecommunications technology services, Widea Area Telephone Service have anything to do with the Civil Rights Movement? I'm assuming whomever added the Civil Rights Movement WikiProject think WATS is related to the late 1960s Watts riots in California. No? I propose removal of template from this Talk page. Jimj wpg (talk) 12:05, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

No. You assumed incorrectly. The text in the article on the Civil Rights Movement makes it quite clear that Civil Rights workers made effective use of WATS lines for their communication needs. This use of WATS lines had nothing to do with the Watts riots. Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 03:24, 2 January 2022 (UTC)