Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 15 Jun 91 14:47:11 PDT From: Charles Buckley Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: German Telephone Unification 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 458, Message 10 of 10 Lines: 14 scb@cs.brown.edu (Spyros C. Bartsocas) wrote: > The reason is that the "Eastern portion of the Federal Republic of > Germany" is still called the same way it was before it merged with the > "Western portion". I suspect that the dialing rates are different > too. AT&T's Reach out world plan only covers the Western Portion > (country code 49). I had thought so too, and I don't know about Reach Out World, but on my recent bill, normal calls of the same length to the two zones were billed at exactly the same rate. Before unifacation, I remember this not being true.