Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 16:21:08 GMT From: Mark W Wheatley Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Local Calling Areas (was Surprise!!) Message-ID: Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 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 468, Message 5 of 10 Lines: 33 In article arielle@taronga.hackercorp. com (Stephanie da Silva) writes: > In article , gs26@prism.gatech.edu > (Glenn R. Stone) writes: >> The Metro Atlanta calling area extends for 80 some miles in a couple >> directions ... it'll be in its own area code in March, 1992. >> Can anybody top that? > I'm surprised no one has mentioned Houston. I thought we had the > largest local calling area in the US. The reason why so many local > BBSs have sprung up around here. A local paper here (Capitol Hill Beacon) announced that the Oklahoma City calling area has been expanded to include all exchanges wthin 35 miles of the "Central Oklahoma City exchange area". The resulting area is said to to be "three times the size of Rhode Island" and the paper states the new area is the "biggest in the nation". It's about 4,000 suqre miles if I remember my formulas correctly :-). For those with a map handy, it runs from Purcell in the South to Guthrie in the North, El Reno on the West and Shawnee on the East. Of course for the ability to call this far we have to pay $25.00/month. And we still have to pay $1.50/month for tone service. You gotta love Oklahoma ... University of Oklahoma * Mark W. Wheatley Norman Campus * mwwheatl@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu BS in Computer Science May 1992 * CIS: 72417,3171