Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 03:07 PDT From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: SJ Merc Explains New Rates Badly Reply-To: John Higdon Message-ID: Organization: Green Hills and Cows 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 445, Message 4 of 12 Lines: 21 Michael Graff <0004450555@mcimail.com> writes: > "Calls up to 12 miles away to be free starting Saturday" What the Merc failed to mention -- a considerable oversight for a San Jose paper -- was that the largest San Jose rate center, San Jose 2, had no change whatsoever. It has never had a "Zone 2" to become a "Zone 1". When ZUM (Zone Usage Measurement, pronounced "zoom", as in "zoom your bill up") was first set up, Los Gatos was to have been a Zone 2 call from San Jose 2. There was an outcry, and a little gerrymandering later it magically became a Zone 1 call before the plan was even implemented. I have an area phone book printed right at the transition that shows LG to be Zone 2 to downtown San Jose. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !