cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (05/02/91)
As you have seen in this Digest and elsewhere, the local companies have a waiver permitting them to serve as long distance carrier for calls between Philadelphia and southern NJ NYC and northern NJ. You do see default carriers listed on payphones, and sometimes I have seen companies I haven't heard of before. (Yes, the complaints about COCOTs include comments about getting a company you've never heard of before, but on a NJ Bell payphone in Voorhees I saw a company I hadn't heard of before: American Network Exchange in Orlando, Florida.) But I do not recall the local phone company ever appearing as a default carrier on phones in areas where the above waiver applies (admittedly I haven't looked that much); is it because you'd have to list a different carrier for calls beyond the range of the waiver?