[TommyDale]

Actually, the Fox people do control which time zones, or which area codes, can get through. My question is whether the "fix is in" to keep the votes down against the local star.

[discostu]

I don't know about controlling which gets through but one thing I know for sure: if you're getting trunk busy when hitting the 1 it's 100% a problem with your providor, it hasn't gotten anywhere near Fox yet. Truthfully why would Fox need to rig the phone lines, nobody knows the numbers but them anyway, if they wanted to make numbers up nobody could stop them or prove them wrong.

[Blueflag]

I used to work for an RBOC and an IXC (BIG phone companies). I'm a Reuben fan, so I had BellSouth and Nortel rig the SS7 system software so any Clay fans couldn't get past 1+.

If you guys couldn't get past 1+, then blame your long distance carrier. The switch starts routing the call as soon as you start dialing. You got to 1+, the software read your pic for long distance, attempted to route the call header and oops(!) no capacity.

Didn't have AT&T did you?