Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!think!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: podop10@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Peter Fleszar) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Lopsided Local Calling Area (was: Modem Leapfrog...) Message-ID: <5429@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 19 Mar 90 23:01:40 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Peter Fleszar Organization: SUNY Binghamton, NY Lines: 81 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 190, Message 4 of 6 Well, in upstate NY calling areas are roughly congruent with county lines. The county seat (which in my examples is the same as the market center of the county; perhaps a systematic bias) can call all, or nearly all, of the smaller towns within the county, but often not other towns inside the same radius but not within the county. The smaller towns can call the next town inside the county and the county seat, but often not adjacent towns inside or (especially) outside the county. I'll illustrate this by discussing my home area of Cortland (Cortland) and Tompkins (Ithaca) counties; and add without further proof that this system seems to hold for Cayuga (Auburn), Onondaga (Syracuse), and Broome (Binghamton) counties. CORTLAND County seat: Cortland - (607) 749, 753, 756 - NYTel Can call (within county): Cincinnatus (607) 863, Truxton (607) 842, Marathon (607) 849, Virgil (607) 835 - Contel; McGraw (607) 836 - NYTel. Can call (town just outside county, but exchange includes significant area within county) DeRuyter (315) 852, Dryden (607) 844 - Contel; Tully (315) 696 - NYTel. Can call (entirely outside county, but town much closer to Cortland than to its own county seat): Sempronius (315) 496, McLean (607) 838, Groton (607) 898 - NYTel. (Note that these are served by the same local loop provider as Cortland.) Example town: Marathon, south of Cortland (exchange area includes a small rural corner of Broome county) - Contel Can call: Cortland (607) 749, 753, 756, [adjacent within county] McGraw (607) 836 - NYTel; [adjacent within county] Cincinnatus (607) 863 - Contel. Can NOT call the other adjacent exchanges: Dryden (Tompkins county) (607) 844, Richford (Tioga county) (607) 657, Whitney Point (Broome county) (607) 692. TOMPKINS County seat: Ithaca - (607) 253, 254, 255, [256 - disused], 257, 272, 273, 274, 277 - NYTel Can call (all within county): (607) 387 Trumansburg - Trumansburg Home Telephone Co.; Etna (607) 347, Dryden (607) 844, Slaterville Springs (607) [don't recall] - Contel; Lansing (607) 533, Newfield (607) 564, McLean (607) 838, Groton (607) 898 - NYTel. Can't call elsewhere locally. Example: Groton, 15 mi. from Ithaca and 10 mi. from Cortland, all inside Tompkins county as far as I know. Can call (within county) Ithaca (607) 2xx, McLean (607) 838. These are NYTel, as is Groton. Can call (outside county) Cortland (607) 7xx - NYTel. Can NOT call (adjacent within county) Etna (607) 347, Dryden (607) 844 - Contel; Lansing (607) 533 - NYTel. Can NOT call (adjacent outside county) Sempronius (315) 496, Moravia (607) 497 - NYTel. So, I guess this all means that 1) the county seat exchange can call within the county and some very nearby areas outside within its market area; 2) rural exchanges can call the county seat, the market center, and maybe one or two other towns close by, but not outside the county. Hope this helps someone. I'd like it if someone who *knows* would post some hard stuff to end the discussion (yea, right :) ). Peter Fleszar BITnet PODOP10@BINGVAXA Internet podop10@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu Compu$... 72000,1471 Ham Radio KB2CCL Phone +1 607 798-8769 Mail-home PO Box 32, McLean, NY 13102 USA.