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From: BMITCHEL@gtri01.gatech.edu (Barry Mitchell)
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Subject: Phone Service in the UK Two Decades Ago
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When I lived in England in 1970 the phone systems there were almost
the same as those described in the previous messages.  A telephone
number (area code, etc) was not the same throughout the country.  From
one city, your home number would be something totally different from
what it would be in another city.  The result being that if you were
out of your home town and wanted to call home, you couldn't just dial
it from memory ... you had to find a local telephone book with all the
right codes.

I don't know if they have updated the system since then but it made
me appreciate the convenience and value that we receive here in the US
and North America.  Where else can you order a pizza from a cellular
phone while driving home and have the delivery person be there waiting
on you when you arrive home?