Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 03 Jun 91 19:24:33 EDT From: Roger Fajman Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Surprise!! Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 419, Message 2 of 9 Lines: 28 > Yeah, I just can't get enough of that great Pac*Bel logic either. > Does this mean that after the 415/510 split, we'll be getting free > unlimited calls to a _different area code_ if we have flat-rate > service, and are calling back and forth from SF to the East Bay? Does > that happen anywhere else? Here in the Washington, DC, area we have flat rate local calling among three area codes (202, 301, 703). We also have a quite large local calling area centered around DC and including much of the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Unfortunately, it is flattened in the northwest and so does not include my home in Ashton, MD. :-( However, when the 301 area code splits, I will be able to dial local calls to three area codes from there too. Here we now have to dial the area code in front of a local call to another area code. When that went into effect, a 1 in front of the area code would not be accepted. However, I just tried a few calls and found that the 1 seems to be optional now. I also found that I could also prefix a local call in my own area code with 1 and the area code, which also did not work before. I was doing this from a Centrex line on the 301-402 exchange. It might work differently elsewhere. Roger Fajman Telephone: +1 301 402 1246 National Institutes of Health BITNET: RAF@NIHCU Bethesda, Maryland, USA Internet: RAF@CU.NIH.GOV