Originally Posted by
mbstone
You could ask the guard or receptionist for an outside phone line to call 1-800-TAXICAB (which will route your call to the local taxi service).
That doesn't route you to "the local taxi service." First of all, how would one even define what "the local taxi service" is? Rather, that number routes you to whatever taxi service that serves that general geographic area and has paid to receive calls through that phone number. That company may be far from the best option from that location, depending on the circumstances.