Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: David Tamkin Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Lopsided Local Calling Area Message-ID: <5374@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 20 Mar 90 05:33:02 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 29 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 186, Message 2 of 9 Jeff Wolfe wrote in TELECOM Digest, Volume 10, Issue 182: | I live in Dalton, Pa. a town serviced by Commenweath Telephone Co. I | have a few friends in the town of Lake Winola, Pa. 7 driving miles | from my house. To call them, I must dial 1-378-xxxx. But, to call Penn | State's Scranton Campus, where I attend school, I can simply dial | 961-xxxx. What's significant are not so much the boundaries of your seven-digit dialing area so much as those of your toll-free area. If I were placing calls from Dalton, whether there were toll charges would be more important to me than whether I had to dial eight digits or seven. Where the moderator lives and where my parents live, there are a lot of places to which one must dial eleven digits but the calls are untimed and also a lot of places to which one must dial seven digits but the calls carry a per-minute toll. Given a choice of which of a company's locations to call, I'll take more button-pushing with less cost over dialing fewer digits but paying higher charges any day. Do you also have untimed (perhaps even unlimited) service to Scranton but have to pay by the minute for a call to Lake Winola, or is it the other way around? David Tamkin PO Box 813 Rosemont IL 60018-0813 708-518-6769 312-693-0591 dattier@chinet.chi.il.us BIX: dattier GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN CIS: 73720,1570