Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: scott@huntsai.boeing.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: NXX Count (1-15 Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 21:01:47 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 28 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 159, Message 3 of 8 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hub.eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu arnold%audiofax.com@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold Robbins) writes: > Georgia is currently only two area codes altogether. Probably Atlanta > will keep 404 and the rest of North Georgia would get the new area > code. The Atlanta LATA is apparently the largest free calling area in > the world, from what an adjunct professor who works for Southern Bell > once told me. This is true. To give an example, when I lived in Atlanta I was able to make local calls to places that were a good hour's drive away. The local calling area spans several counties. Here in Huntsville the longest local call would take about twenty minutes to drive to, and many places that are within a fifteen minute's drive are long distance. Scott Hinckley Internet:scott@huntsai.boeing.com UUCP: .!uunet!uw-beaver!bcsaic!huntsai!scot DISCLAIMER: All contained herein are my opinions, they do not represent the opinions or feelings of Boeing or its management. [Moderator's Note: Do you think driving in city traffic has anything to do with it? Here in Chicago I can't go five miles in fifteen minutes during the rush hour. PAT]