Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 3 Jun 91 03:29:55 GMT From: David E A Wilson Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Surprise!! Message-ID: Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia 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 420, Message 9 of 10 Lines: 35 > [Moderator's Note: Although we do not get flat-rate service, we do get > untimed local calls within an eight-mile radius for about four cents > each. Does this mean that the telco has the exact geographic co-ords for each phone number so that a call to one house [(abc) def 1234] is untimed but a call to another house on the same exchange but > eight miles away [(abc) def 1235] is timed? Or is it based on distances between exchanges so that if you are lucky you could be further apart as long as the two exchanges in question were within eight miles of each other? Our local calls are untimed (22c soon to be 24c) and can reach 30km to the north and south but only 5km to the east and 10km to the west (the Pacific Ocean and Illawarra Coastal Ranges get in the way) from my home. This is based on exchange districts - calls to your own district or an adjacent one are local. David Wilson Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong david@cs.uow.edu.au [Moderator's Note: They measure from one central office to another, as the crow flies. Any central offices within eight miles of the central office serving you in any direction make up your local calling area. I get a smaller area here since I am two miles west of Lake Michigan. I cannot call eight miles east! But my eight miles north gets me into Glencoe, IL. To the northwest, Skokie and Niles. West to the Chicago central offices of Kildare, Irving, Merrimac and Newcastle. South to the Chicago central offices of Lakeview, Superior, Illinois-Dearborn. Directly southeast of me is Chicago-Edgewater. 'My' CO is Rogers Park. There might be 10-11 miles between subscribers if both are at the outer edges of their own district. The plan here is fair to all. PAT]