Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "John R. Levine" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 10-NYT and 10-NJB Message-ID: <8647@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 4 Jun 90 05:38:41 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA Lines: 26 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 412, Message 11 of 13 In article <8544@accuvax.nwu.edu> you write: >> 4) How the local telco got a waiver to give long distance service ... >It's not really "Long Distance" service. New Jersey Bell and Bell of >PA offer the same service in Philadelphia County PA and Burlington, >Camden, and maybe Mercer Counties NJ. Au contraire, to the best of my knowledge it has never been a local call from New Jersey to New York across the Hudson nor from New Jersey to Philadelphia across the Delaware, even though the distances involved are in both cases only a mile or so. (No wonder Franklin called New Jersey "a keg tapped at both ends.") It was and is a local call across the Delaware a few miles north of Philadelphia between New Hope PA and Lambertville NJ. Don't ask me why. My recollection is that the telephone networks across the two rivers were such a logistical nightmare that it was technically infeasable to partition them and route all the traffic to LD carriers between the time the Bell breakup was announced and the time it became effective. Regards, John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl