Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Remarks in Clancy Novel Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 89 19:29:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Amanda Walker Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 16 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 387, message 5 of 7 In article , loughry@tramp.colorado.edu (J. Loughry) writes: > "Ryan terminated the call and placed one to his house, which had three > lines. It was, perversely, a long-distance call. He needed a D.C. > line for his work. Cathy needed a Baltimore connection for hers, plus > a local line for other matters." > > Maybe someone can explain this to us Westerners. The phone service around DC and Baltimore is a bit strange... In many areas, you get a choice of what kind of line you want, with different kinds having different areas that are considered "local". The quoted example sounds a little stretched, but that kind of thing does happen in these parts :-)... Amanda Walker amanda@intercon.com