Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request From: nin15b0b@stan.merrimack.edu (David E. Sheafer, Class of 1989) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: GTE and Pac Tel Cellular in Los Angeles Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 02:11:02 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA Lines: 36 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 194, Message 3 of 6 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 In article , dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson) writes: > In article , chapman@alc.com (Brent > Chapman) writes: > [regarding cellular carriers that offer huge 'local' calling areas] >> roughly 150 by 50 miles on a side) are "local" calls. Further, they >> state that calls placed _from_ cellular phones to anywhere in their >> Bay Area service area are "local" calls, regardless of the home area >> code of the cellular phone and the area code of the number being >> dialed; there are probably some perverse cases where using a cellular >> phone to call somewhere else in the service area is cheaper than using >> normal PacBell service. > Here in the New York City CGSA, the non-wireline carrier (MetroOne) > offers a huge local calling area. They charge their normal airtime > rate, but the landline rate for calls within their service area is > 0.06 per minute regardless of distance. If I'm in Eastern Long Island > and place a call from the car to Central New Jersey, I pay six cents > per minute for the land-line call, but I'm calling over 100 miles. > The air time, if it's non-prime time, is 0.15/minute regardless of > distance. In Massachussets (sp) any called dialed from a NYNEX (wireline carrier) mobile phone is considered local if the destination of the call is in NYNEX mobiles service area (which covers of all RI, all of Eastern MA (508/617), and Southern NH), and they only charge usage time rates, they don'T charge any landline rates. David E. Sheafer internet: nin15b0b@merrimack.edu or uucp: samsung!hubdub!nin15b0b GEnie: D.SHEAFER Freenet ap345 Bitnet: Sheafer_davi@bentley