Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Non-dialable Points Message-ID: Date: 6 Aug 89 20:59:16 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Columbia University Lines: 24 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 277, message 2 of 11 Recently it was mentioned that there are thousands of non-dialable points left in California. Just out of curiosity... What cities (or should I say villages) are still-non dialable? Do such places have outbound dialing or is all calling still operator-assist? I would think that with today's telephone technology, DDD would reach _all_ points in America. Can anyone explain the holdouts? Thanks, -G [Moderator's Note: Mr. Covert's article recent article stating 'there are thousands of non-dialable points' also caught my attention. If he was including toll-stations in his count, I'd say there might be a couple hundred such places; if his calculations were only of manual exchange service, which all of us were at one point and few (if any) of us are now, it defies my imagination that there are 'thousands of them left....especially in California...'. If there are thousands of them, perhaps Mr. Covert will write an article and name just a dozen or so. Even a lot of the Nevada toll- stations have been picked up by other exchanges in the recent past, but toll-stations are NOT the same as manual exchanges in any event. PT]