RAF@NIHCU.BITNET ("Roger Fajman") (01/16/88)
> John R. Levine asks about pay phones -- > 1) He notes, correctly, that some exchanges did/still do have private phones > beginning with 9xxx. Its not too common, but happens. Here in Chicago, one > exchange for many years, "LOngbeach 1" (now 561) had private residence numbers > beginning that way. My newly-assigned home phone number here in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC (served by C&P Telephone, part of Bell Atlantic) is in the 9xxx series. I suspect that the shortage of exchanges in some areas is forcing the phone companies to give up such conventions.