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From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl.mil>
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Subject: Choke Lines
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Date: 15 Mar 90 16:23:33 GMT
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Regarding "choke" lines: I am wondering about 215-263 in Philadelphia,
Pa., and 609-590 just across the river in Camden, NJ, being "choke"
lines.  An old gripe for people from Delaware is that both numbers are
11-digit long distance, and this causes problems in getting thru on
phone contests, because of the extra digits to dial.  More recently, I
have heard "263-xxxx inside Phila., 1-800-yyy-xxxx elsewhere", and I
can't recall just now what the yyy stands for.

(Scott Fybush had written concerning reaching a "choke" number from
out-of-area.)