Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!maynard!campbell
From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Limiting modems to local calls
Message-ID: <1092@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: 16 Jun 88 00:02:14 GMT
References: <4539@b-tech.UUCP> <215@westmark.UUCP> <272@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG> <5853@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <5853@aw.sei.cmu.edu> pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Pat Barron) writes:
<>In article <272@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG> mark@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
<>>Just call your current long distance provider and cancel long distance
<>>service for that line.  If you do this then you will not be able to
<>>make ANY long distance calls over that particular line, except for 1-800 
<>>numbers.
<>
<>This will only remove your "dial 1+" (i.e., default) long-distance carrier.
<>You will still be able to make any long distance call by dialing with a
<>10xxx prefix.

You're both wrong, at least partially.  This will only remove your ability
to make inter-LATA long-distance calls.  It won't affect intra-LATA calls.
I can call anywhere in the 617 (soon to be 617 & 508) area code without
using a long-distance carrier, since 617 is all one LATA.  In New England,
there is a one-to-one correspondence between area codes and LATAs;  that
will change in a few weeks when the 617 LATA splits into 617 and 508 area
codes.
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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