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From: GREEN@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU ("Scott D. Green, Classroom Services")
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Subject: 890 Area Code??
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 17:47:00 EDT
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I understood (from Bell o' PA, I think) that they were setting up 890 as
a toll-free exchange for reaching the Business Office, rather that the
800- numbers they had been using.  It always seemed a little absurd to use
an 800- number to call across town, anyway.  Sounds a little like the 950-
exchange they set up for no-charge calls to the ALDCo's.

-scott