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From: DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu) (DOUGLAS SCOTT REUBEN)
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Subject: Re: 10-NYT and 10-NJB
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Date: 6 Jun 90 10:14:21 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 416, Message 8 of 10


Right after Divestiture, and for some time afterwards, New York
Telephone's inserts in their monthly phone bills (they call it
"Hello") stated that there is a "special transit corridor" between New
York City and Northern New Jersey.

The insert said that all NON-equal access customers, ie, people in
older exchanges who could not get equal access, would have all their
calls to Northern New Jersey routed over New York Telephone via the
"special transit corridor", while those who did have equal access
would have their long distance company handle these calls.

Later on, during 1987, they started promoting the use of "10NYT", and
New Jersey Bell the use of "10NJB". Then, in 1989, New York Telephone
sent us a letter claiming to be able to save us money if we make over
$50 worth of calls to north Jersey via a long distance company, and
switched to NYT. It was sort of a WATS line to north Jersey, but from
what I gather they just program the switch to direct all calls to
north Jersey made from your phone to use New York Tel instead of AT&T.
I'm not sure how this actually works, so if anyone is interested, call
NY Tel. I'm sure they'd be glad to talk to you about it! :-)

Interestingly, from New York to New Jersey, using 10NYT will only work
as a 1+ call. IE, you can call from 212-686 to 201-322 by dialing
10NYT-1-201-322-9950. You can't dial a calling card call this way,
however, and must use AT&T for such a call. (And pay a $.80 rather
than a $.30 cent surcharge.) Moreover, you can't "sequence call" to
New Jersey either, ie, you can't make a call from 212-686 to 212-353
via a calling card, then press the "#" sign to make a new call, and
then call New Jersey 201-322.

BUT, from New Jersey, you CAN do this. You can make calling card calls
anywhere within the north Jersey LATA, as well as to New York City
(212/718).

Wonder why New York Tel. won't allow this as well ... They could make a
lot of money from locations such as Penn Station or the Port Authority
Bus terminal, both of which are commuter stops for the heavy
trans-Hudson traffic.


Doug

dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu
dreuben@wesleyan.bitnet
(and just plain old "dreuben" to locals...!  :-)  )