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From: eli@pws.bull.com
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Subject: NYNEX Offering 'Local' 800 Numbers
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Date: 2 Feb 90 04:14:10 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 72, message 13 of 16


My recent NETel bill contained an ad for a new 800 service available
around here.  Apparently, the number is only good from the New England
area...  I thought that 800 numbers were either within 1 state, or
countrywide...  Has something changed?


; Steve Elias
; work phone:  508 671 7556 ;   email:  eli@pws.bull.com , eli@spdcc.com
; voice mail:  617 932 5598 


[Moderator's Note: Just as there was always 'banded WATS', so there
was 'banded in-WATS', allowing calls from everywhere in the USA, (Band
6), all places except Alaska and Hawaii (Band 5), various combinations
of nearby and further away states (Bands 1,2,3,4), and intrastate
only, known as Band 8. Bands 1 through 4 are rarely ordered these days
since they just are not cost-efficient. It could be NYNEX has set up
something along these lines.  PT]