Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Largest Toll-Free Region? Message-ID: <2461@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 28 Dec 89 22:33:39 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 31 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 599, message 6 of 9 I would submit the Houston metropolitan area as one of the largest toll-free regions, both in population and in area... The central zone and first and second-tier exchanges (what's the difference between central and first/second-tier, anyway, in this context?) make up a compact toll-free area, by the definition given: all calls involving two phones in this area are local. This area is bounded, very roughly, by a circle forty miles in diameter, and includes most of the Houston SMSA. The normal toll-free area for someone inside that circle is bounded by a rough circle about 60-65 miles in diameter, and includes anything that could remotely be considered a suburb of Houston, including Katy, Richmond/Rosenberg, League City, Baytown, and Tomball, extending well into Montgomery, Galveston, Waller, and Fort Bend counties. The normal toll-free area for someone in the parts of this zone outside the central 40-mile circle is that circle, and all exchanges adjacent to the caller's exchange. (I was disappointed to discover that my parents, who live in Tomball, are a long-distance call from me in League City, even though we both have metro service.) The extended toll-free area is the same as the local toll-free area for the central zone. There is precious little territory in the 713 area code that this does not include. Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- Here come Democrats...here come Democrats...throwing money a-way...