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From: JTW106@psuvm.psu.edu (Jeff Wolfe)
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Subject: Re: Lopsided Local Calling Area
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Date: 20 Mar 90 17:08:22 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 190, Message 5 of 6

In article <5374@accuvax.nwu.edu>, dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David Tamkin) 
says:

>Jeff Wolfe wrote in TELECOM Digest, Volume 10, Issue 182:

>| 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.

    I guess I should have specified that any number with a '1' in
front is automatically a toll call in our area (except calls to the
telco itself).  I am indeed charged by the minute to call Lake Winola.
My Scranton service is untimed and unlimited. The 'local toll' (I'm
not up on teleco terms) rates are more expensive than AT&T's long
distance rates.. I would gladly dial 50 digits if I didn't have to pay
for a call that only went 7 miles!


  -- Jeff Wolfe
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