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From: cmoore@BRL.ARPA (Carl Moore, VLD/VMB)
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Subject: foreign exchange in a shopping mall
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Date: 2 May 88 21:14:34 GMT
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I was in Security Square Mall, in a western suburb of Baltimore, Maryland,
yesterday.  I noticed, on a row of pay phones, 2 phones with a foreign
exchange (301-448, occurring in a nearby part of Baltimore city) next to
about 6 or 7 phones on 301-944 Woodlawn, a "correct" prefix for that area.
Why a neighboring prefix?  Both have Baltimore metro local service, and
the difference is only in the outer fringes (such as 301-877 in Fallston,
Harford County, way to the east of Baltimore city).  Also, since Baltimore
is big enough to have city as opposed to suburban prefixes, 911 would have
different meaning (Baltimore city is not a part of Baltimore county, which
includes Woodlawn area).
The only other cases I know of where a foreign exchange appears on a pay
phone both involve DC metro service from airports: 301-621 Laurel (Bowie-
Glenn Dale service) at BWI and 703-471 Herndon (Vienna service) at Dulles.