Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!hsdndev!bu.edu!telecom-request From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Large Local Calling Areas (was Re: NXX Count) Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 05:49:54 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 20 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 186, Message 7 of 14 > 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. You mean 302 (Delaware) instead of 312 (Chicago). All PA points (this is in 215) along the Delaware border have local service across it; the DE points affected are Holly Oak, Wilmington, Newport, Hockessin, and Newark, with the rest of DE being long distance. > 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. I know of local service between Oxford (215-932) and Kirkwood (717-529), and between Atglen (215-593) and Gap (717-442), but I think these points in 215 are served by Bell of Pa. Other local service I know of between 215 and 717 is between Lehighton (215-377, not in Chester County) and Jim Thorpe (717-325).