wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) (12/24/90)
|It has not only been considered, it's been planned. It appears in the |Bellcore "Notes on the Intra-LATA Networks". |The plan is that all intra-NPA calls will be dialed with seven digits, |whether or not a toll charge applies. Moreover, all inter-NPA calls |will be dialed as 1 + 10 digits. Non-conforming areas are expected to |implement these procedures during the 1990's. I expect some P{U,S}C's to fight this ... Ohio, for example, has been pretty strict on it. OBT started up some extended area discount plan in NE Ohio last year. (Of course, they did not bother to tell you it only applied on Bell CO --> Bell CO calls.) As part of it, you did not use a "1" on a call that was toll, albeit at a lower rate. One month later, a letter arrived from OBT saying: The PUC hath said ... wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (305) 255-RTFM pob 570-335 33257-0335