Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: das@cs.ucla.edu (David Smallberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Tokyo goes to 8 digits Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 89 20:13:14 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: David Smallberg Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 23 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 243, message 7 of 9 In article comcon!roy@uunet.uu.net (Roy Silvernail) writes: >In article , das@cs.ucla.edu (David >Smallberg) 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) What I meant, of course*, was that to save communications costs, information calls to Alaska or the Caribbean islands *from the 48 states* were handled in Seattle and Florida (so I had heard; Hawaii was definitely handled in Granada Hills, Calif.). When you say "the information operators have been in the state", do you mean for other than calls originating in Alaska? (If Alaskans called Hawaii information, or vice versa, where did the calls go?) *I guess my "lower-48ism" is showing, using a phrasing that presumes Alaska is "out there". -- David Smallberg, das@cs.ucla.edu, ...!{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!cs.ucla.edu!das