Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl.mil> (03/16/90)
Regarding "choke" lines: I am wondering about 215-263 in Philadelphia, Pa., and 609-590 just across the river in Camden, NJ, being "choke" lines. An old gripe for people from Delaware is that both numbers are 11-digit long distance, and this causes problems in getting thru on phone contests, because of the extra digits to dial. More recently, I have heard "263-xxxx inside Phila., 1-800-yyy-xxxx elsewhere", and I can't recall just now what the yyy stands for. (Scott Fybush had written concerning reaching a "choke" number from out-of-area.)