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From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon)
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Subject: Re: Time Limits on Calls
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Arnette P Baker +1 708 510 6437 <ihlpf!kityss@att.uucp> writes:

> So, anyone out there ever hear of this kind of limit??  I presume it
> was done to reduce the load on a switch that was under engineered for
> the amount of traffic, but I really have no idea why it existed.

When I lived in Martinsville, VA in 1966, the local calling area
consisted of Martinsville and neighboring Collinsville. It stated
right in the Lee Telephone Company directory that local calls to and
from Collinsville were limited to five minutes due to a limited amount
of circuits between the two communities. After three minutes of
conversation, you got a tone and then two minutes later you were cut
off. No exceptions.

The work-around, of course, was to call back over and over again. I'll
bet a lot of teenagers got sore fingers.


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