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From: "Joel B. Levin" <levin@bbn.com>
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Subject: Re: Special Numbers (Information, etc.)
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Re my note about the information and repair service numbers that used to
be in effect, Patrick notes:

>[Moderator's Note: I don't think there were any geographical boundaries
>involved here. I think the 110/113/114 style was largely used by the
>independent telcos and GTE; with Mom and her daughters tending to use
>the 211/411/611 arrangment instead.   PT]

My direct experience with 113 and 114 was in Utah and Arizona in the
'60s with Mountain Bell Telephone, one of the big twenty two.

	/JBL