Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: zygot!john@apple.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Local Area Calls in Silicon Valley Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 89 19:22:20 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: ATI Wares Team Lines: 28 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 245, message 6 of 8 In article , uuwest!watcher@apple.com (the Watcher) writes: > In response to "what the billing is like around here", it seems to have been > arranged for the phone company (pacific*bell and/or GTE, depending) to make > lots of money. Unmeasured service is available, except that calls outside of > an 8-mile radius of where you are calling from are "zone" charges. If you Current reregulation attempts by Pac*Bell would extend the 8 mile radius to 12 miles. This would (hopefully) correct some of the gross inequities that exist in the south Bay Area. For example, Campbell is a community surrounded on all sides by San Jose, yet is has its own exchange. San Jose itself is divided into three zones. All "San Jose" prefixes are local to each other, but each zone has a different local calling area, and this is where the inequities lie. Campbell<>Zone 1 is toll, and yet there are many San Jose addresses in the "Campbell" exchange. Zone 1 is the east side, but from there it's a local call to Zone 2 telephones that are located far west of the Campbell exchange all the way to the Cupertino hills! Depending on where you draw your route, a five mile call can be toll and a thirty mile call can be local. Most of this is due to the fact that the zones have very irregular shapes that resemble political gerrymandering (coincidental?) and have little to do with geographical realities. -- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.uucp | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !