Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: r4@cbnews.att.com (richard.r.grady..jr) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Local Area Calls in New Hampshire Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 89 16:03:05 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: "richard.r.grady..jr" Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 31 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 247, message 8 of 10 In article Joel B Levin writes: > [...] >Nashua, the second largest city in New Hampshire, and its surrounding >towns do not have metered service. I believe the same is true of >Manchester, the largest city, though I don't recall having read the >relevant parts of the Manchester white pages. This means that >(probably) the entire state of New Hampshire is free of measured >service (for residents-- I'm not sure about business service). > [...] I live in Salem, NH, which is next-door, exchange-wise, from Nashua (There are two intervening towns, but Nashua serves Hudson, and Salem serves Windham), and with-in the local dialing area of Nashua. For the last 15 years in Salem (ever since they replaced the SXS switch with ESS), residential phones have a choice of unlimited or metered local service. I don't have the numbers in front of me, so the following may by slightly inaccurate, but the dollar values are approximately right. Unlimited costs ~$12/month. Metered costs ~$5/month, and includes 50 message units (increments of 5-minutes). I chose metered, because I make very few local calls [ but you should see my long-distance bills :-) ]; I have never gone over the initial 50 units. A few years (and a couple of rate changes) ago, the break-even point was about 125 message units. Business local service is metered only. Dick Grady r4@mvuxd.att.com ...!att!mvuxd!r4