Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: comcon!roy@uunet.uu.net (Roy Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Tokyo goes to 8 digits Message-ID: Date: 16 Jul 89 09:21:16 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Computer Connection Lines: 21 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 240, message 7 of 11 In article , das@cs.ucla.edu (David Smallberg) writes: > In article the moderator writes: > > > > I also had heard that Alaska information was handled in or near Seattle and > Carribean islands in Florida. I don't know what the situation is today. > Since I moved to Alaska some 19 years ago, the information operators have been in the state, at least. Outlying areas such as Nome are serviced from Anchorage or Fairbanks. (Nome's information calls are done in Fairbanks) In years past, though, Nome's telephone information was located in one of the local taxi companies, and at one time the taxi company was headquartered out of a local bar. Thus, the bartender was the information operator. Roy M. Silvernail Sub-Arctic Programmer-at-large UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy (spif sig Real Soon Now) [my account, my opinions]