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- From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Dialing Changes in New England Tel Land
- Message-ID: <telecom12.856.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:18:28 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 856, Message 6 of 13
-
- > NETel is replacing [1+NNX-XXXX] with NNX-XXXX, which IMHO is a
- > mistake, since there are some rather expensive calls that can be made
- > within NPAs here, and the telecom-illiterate will have no easy way of
- > knowing whether the NXX-XXXX they're about to dial is around the
- > corner or 100 miles away.
-
- One can always look it up in the phone book, since all NET phone books
- have complete prefix listings for the local NPA. Agreed, some
- intra-NPA calls can be expensive, particularly in Vermont. (From
- Burlington it's cheaper to call Los Angeles or Montreal than to call
- Brattleboro.) But I can say from experience in New Jersey that people
- live without 1+ for toll perfectly well, and there is a definite
- convenience factor in not having to remember what needs 1+ and what
- doesn't.
-
- I might also point out that due to the screwy local rates around here,
- from here in Cambridge on weekends it's cheaper for me to call
- Nantucket which is a 1+ toll call than it is to call Lexington which
- is allegedly local. But on my other phone line, calls to Lexington
- are free because I have "metro" service.
-
-
- Regards,
-
- John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl
-