Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 800 Rates Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 89 03:23:47 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 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 525, message 4 of 11 In article John Higdon writes: >As far as the amazement goes about calls across the nation costing >less than calls across the state, Californians have been up in arms >about this fact of life for decades. As far as I can determine, the >most expensive call in the US is one from San Diego to Crescent City. >It matters not which carrier you select, they all charge some >ultra-rip-off rate. This is our great Public Utilities Commission at >work. Ah, John, have you tried calling Crescent City yourself?? I believe you will find that it is even MORE expensive from your location than from San Diego, since Pac*Bell's intra-LATA rates are even higher than the LDCs' inter-LATA rates for the same distance. Perhaps even worse than Santa Cruz-to-Crescent City would be Los Angeles to the northeastern tip of Area Code 619 (south of Lake Tahoe), within the L.A. LATA. Yes, here in California we have a very logical system: toll call charges vary inversely with distance.... Linc Madison = rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu