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Subject: Lopsided Local Calling Area (was: Modem Leapfrog...)
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Response I sent to Jeff Wolfe <JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu>:

Where are you that you dial 1+7D for a town less than 7 miles from
home, but have 7D for a town 20 miles from home?

My residence phone in Newark, Del. has lopsided local calling.  I can
call (local) all of New Castle County except for the little fringe
next door to Smyrna at Kent County line, and also 2 exchanges in
southern Chester County, Pa.  But Maryland, maybe only 2 or 3 miles
away to the west (and the next-door exchange in that direction), is
11-digit long distance (inter-LATA).