jsol@bu-it.bu.edu (Jonathan Alan Solomon) (07/04/89)
I don't think the NJ DPU decision was meant to lower the number of local calls in a given exchange. I think what was meant was that if a town is connected to more than one exchange (local calling area boundary) which would normally cause a toll be charged, that now that call is local. New England Telephone has had that in place for years. You sometimes have to dial 1 first even for local calls in NET's rural areas, but the DPU here guarantees the same thing. Calls from anywhere within a municipality are local calls, even if the exchange boundaries differ. It's a billing hack. They just simply have to change their billing records so that the call is local. --jsol