Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How Are Inter-LATA Calls in the Same Area Code Handled? Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 89 04:07:37 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 536, message 7 of 10 In article , smk@attunix.att.com (S M Krieger) writes: > But, how does LD > carrier selection and inter-LATA dialing work when an inter-LATA call > is within the same area code (such as between the Atlantic coast and > Delaware River valley LATAs of area code 609)? Here in Backwardtelephoneland, it is very simple. You dial the seven-digit number, or if you are LD shopping, dial 10XXX + seven-digit number. The northern part of 408 is in the San Francisco LATA, while the rest of the area code serves the Monterey LATA. To call a number in Monterey, I just dial the number (no area code). BTW, it costs much less to call Monterey than to call San Francisco, which is closer. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !