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From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
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Subject: Re: Call From NYC to Long Island and Fisher's Island
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In article <11591@accuvax.nwu.edu> cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes:

>schwartz@aiag.enet.dec.com writes that a call from 212 to 516 is
>local.  But I had a message from roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu saying that
>the call in question was going about 20 or 30 miles beyond Cold Spring
>Harbor.  Back in the 1970s (I don't know what has changed in the
>meantime), the message-unit calling area from NYC went as far east as
>the Amityville, Cold Spring Harbor, and Farmingdale exchanges, which
>are somewhere around the Nassau-Suffolk border.

This is no longer true.  I don't know exactly when New York Telephone
cut over, but as of now the entire New York Metropolitan LATA is a
message-unit calling area.  Within the NYMLATA, there are no longer
individually billed toll calls.  NYTel divides the area into seven
regions (I forget the official jargon for these): within each, calls
are one message unit each irrespective of length*; between regions,
calls are timed.

The region boundaries are political in nature and independent of area
code, thus New York City is one region but two area codes (212/718),
whereas Nassau and Suffolk Counties are one region each but share area
code 516.

* There is a service option whereby all calls, even within the region,
are timed: this option has lower per-month fixed charges.


cowan@marob.masa.com			(aka ...!hombre!marob!cowan)