I just got a call from a gentleman from Cingular who let me know that he had just gotten off the phone from a representative of the Attorney General's Office in PA. I contacted the Attorney General's Office a few weeks ago about Cingular blocking conference call numbers. The representative from Cingular apologized to me for blocking the number and wanted to let me know they are no longer blocking these numbers. I thanked him for his call and just restated my disappointment with them and said I hope it would not happen again. He told me there were no immediate plans to block these numbers again.

After I hung up, I tried the conference call number I had and it worked. So go out and try it and see if you are able to do it now. Hopefully they learned their lesson. My guess, they have not and will try it again when all of this blows over.