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From: rbd@neon.gatech.EDU (Richard B. Dervan)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: TOLLS/LOCAL CALLS?
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Date: 20 May 88 12:37:41 GMT
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In article <21675@amdcad.AMD.COM> amdcad!amdcad!rpw3@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Rob Warnock) writes:
>Yes, when I lived in Atlanta, it was said to have "the largest toll-free
>local calling area in the world".

Actually, a small city about 30 miles east of Metro Atlanta has a larger toll-
free calling area than Atlanta.  Conyers, Ga can place calls to the entire
toll-free Metro area, plus to a few towns east of it, such as Covington, which
people in Atlanta can not.

-Richard
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