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From: kahuna!newton@csvax.caltech.edu (Mike Newton)
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Subject: Local Calling Area For Hawaii
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Date: 11 Apr 89 11:05:46 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 133, message 2 of 9

In V9#115, Wayne Folta asks about large calling areas.  Well we have
a rather large/unique calling area (someone else mentioned it, but
had slightly wrong figures):
	[] Large local calling area: 4038 sq miles as of 1980.
	[] Growing calling area: the volcano adds more area each day.
	[] One of the widest (?) variations in altitude: 0 to 13800 feet
		(there are many phones at the observatories "up top").
of course, there are some disadvantages:
	[] Every non-local call is "overseas", and of poor quality.
	[] Its cheaper for me to call the mainland (ROM) than
		Oahu (another island), yet every mainland call goes
		through Oahu!
	[] it reaches very few people (125,000) (roughly 10 exchanges)

I strongly suspect areas in Alaska, Montana, Nevada,... have larger
'local' areas.

- mike

>From the bit bucket in the middle of the Pacific...

Mike Newton				newton@csvax.caltech.edu
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