Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: scott@huntsai.boeing.com (Scott Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Large Local Calling Areas Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 15:17:20 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 35 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 168, Message 11 of 15 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 scott@huntsai.boeing.com (Scott Hinckley) writes: > 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. > [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] Ok, let me try this in miles (as best as I can remember, I usually think of distance in terms of time :-) I could make a call from North of Roswell Georgia to some 20 miles south of Atlanta locally. I believe that is >= 50 miles. It seems like you could call 20-25+ miles in any direction from downtown Atlanta. Here in Huntsville it is about 22 miles (not straight line, but driven line. It would be more like fifteen straight) from the south end of Huntsville out to the edge of the Madison County local area. Now, from the downtown there is nothing like a 'calling radius' the local area goes some three miles in one direction, eight miles in another, and fifteen in another. Scott Hinckley Internet:scott@huntsai.boeing.com UUCP:.!uunet!uw-beaver!bcsaic!huntsai!scott (205) 461-2073 DISCLAIMER: All contained herein are my opinions, they do not represent the opinions or feelings of Boeing or its management.