Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Robert M. Hamer" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Washington Post Reports on Local Calling Changes Message-ID: <11271@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Aug 90 13:02:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 27 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 591, Message 4 of 5 On Wed, 22 Aug 90 11:01:23 EDT Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) writes: >Up to now, DC area has had the "privilege" (since the 1950s, with >quotes mine) of making local calls without area code; however, in >Manhattan (NYC), you routinely use 718 area code to make local call to Two weeks ago I stayed in the Crystal City Hyatt (I like Hyatts; they tend to be classy hotels) and the phone behavior was as follows: (A telephone call from Crystal City to DC proper is a local call.) When I tried to dial a local call from 703 to 202 using 9+NPA+7D on the room phone (the instructions said to use 9+ for local calls) the computer told me I had to dial an 8 first. When I called the front desk, they said I would be charged the minimum fee (a $1.25 or $1.75 surcharge; I forgot which) for the call although it was a local call. I finally gave up on trying to do things right and dialed it using 9+7D which still works, but won't as of Oct 1 if I read things right. My question is, how are other hotels adjusting to the increasing number of local calling areas which are split between area codes. Are they mostly using it as an opportunity to rip off customers? How about some of you who have recently stayed in hotels in local calling areas split between area codes telling us about your experiences, and those of you who travel to such places, trying things out?