Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!telecom-request From: jbaltz@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Large Local Calling Areas (was Re: NXX Count) Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 02:50:38 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: "Jerry B. Altzman" Organization: mailer daemons association Lines: 52 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 181, Message 8 of 9 In article DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Douglas Scott Reuben) writes: > Nassau/516). Calls from most of Queens to Staten Island are 40 cents, > although I can't say this is still true; it was two years ago. I think FYI, those going through NYC. On the coin-op devices, it's more expensive to call "longish distance" -- e.g. from one borough to a distant one. It's US$0.40 to call from the Staten Island ferry terminal in Manhattan (inside the turnstiles) to Staten Island, I believe the opposite is true, as well. On NYTEL pay phones, it's US$0.25 from anywhere in Manhattan to most points in King's and Queen's counties. It's US$0.25 to anywhere in 212, as well (Manhattan and Bronx counties). > Interestingly, some exchanges are the SAME in both area codes. I am > not referring to "choke" prefixes for radio stations (955 for > 212/718/516/and maybe 914), nor to special feature numbers (950, 976, > 970, 540, 550). There is a "230" exchange, and you can use that from > either the 718 or 212 area codes, and you get connected to the same > number. I've seen this advertised on NYC busses for some sort of > shelter (maybe for the homeless? I dunno ...). I think there may be > other exchanges set up this way as well. I'd imagine businesses can just "buy" into certain exchanges and have the numbers auto-forward one to another -- I don't believe (and haven't heard) of any special service offered. > Also, some people on or near the Queens/Nassau line get free (or > untimed) service to a local Nassau communities, and to all of NYC! > Neat place to set up a remote-call-forward site into/out of NYC. A > friend of mine who goes to NYU but lives in Manhasset does this. > According to him, it saves money, and he leaves his terminal on all > day. Those kinds of services aren't uncommon at all--Chichester, Aston, and Marcus Hook PA (as well as several others) are al local calls to most of 312, which isn't surprising, since they are all a stone's throw from the PA/DE border. Likewise, I believe some communities in Chester County, PA may be both local to 717 and 215, since they're served by some random independent telco. jerry b. altzman +1 212 854 8058 jbaltz@columbia.edu jauus@cuvmb (bitnet) NEVIS::jbaltz (HEPNET) ...!rutgers!columbia!jbaltz (bang!)